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Hi all! Co-author of the post here and founder of Micro. Let me know if you have any questions. As always interested to discuss and get feedback. Cheers, Asim.

by asim 6y ago

tmikaeld 6y ago
Why invest time and money in your platform, instead of an established one like Cloudflare and their new Workers platform? Features are similar, especially when combined with Cloudflare Access (50 users free).
- friendly_chap 6y ago
  It's open source and you can self host it yourself if you want. Micro also provides a full development model for services development, since it's also a framework and not "just" a platform. Disclosure: I'm a contributor.
  - tomcam 6y ago
    > It's open source and you can self host it yourself if you want. But you can’t use it commercially, right? https://github.com/micro/services/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/micro/services/blob/master/LICENSE
- asim 6y ago
  Good question. Cloudflare and many other platforms like it are closed source and you're mostly locked in to a very custom development model, there's also no escape hatch. For what you get, it's great, I love cloudflare but I also think we're in a world where being open source first matters. Micro is open source (https://github.com/micro/micro https://github.com/micro/micro) and that's how it started life. It's now "source available" in the sense that we use a license that stops AWS from picking up and hosting it for profit without contributing back, but it's otherwise completely usable for any purpose. Micro as an open source platform enables the ability to self host, develop locally and move beyond our offering m3o.com. I think it also creates trust and thats something we're going to really be thinking about a lot in the next 5-10 years. We're also looking beyond the core primitives themselves towards these value add services in the category of "backend", "logistics", etc. I think providing a generic platform as a service isn't good enough anymore, we really have to push a lot further.
  - tmikaeld 6y ago
    Thanks, I'll take a deeper look and check it out.
monkin 6y ago
What’s with your name? Micro? Mu? m3o? Are you thinking about establishing one name for the whole brand? Especially as “micro” isn’t good searching term, it’s more like “go”. :)
- asim 6y ago
  Yea good question. Micro started with the domain micro.mu for the open source project and we recently found m3o works as a nice moniker and were able to get the dotcom so I think for searchability its "m3o" but the name is Micro, that's what we've always been since inception. And yea Go users search for Golang :) so Micro users search for m3o.
mindhash 6y ago
Looks interesting. Where is the data from services stored? I went through the docs and code, couldn't figure this out
- asim 6y ago
  The data is stored on the platform itself through something called a "store" service. In the long term we'll offer exporting that or backing by your own data storage if that's preferable. Micro provides built in primitives for auth, config, storage, etc. You can learn more about them here https://micro.mu https://micro.mu
FlorianRappl 6y ago
Thanks for sharing! How is it different to DAPR (https://dapr.io https://dapr.io) (besides using a side car to enable all kinds of frameworks instead of just go)? Are the goals similar or actually quite different? How difficult is it to run it completely independent and on premise (i.e., define custom storage provider etc)? Any examples available? Thanks!
- asim 6y ago
  I think Dapr has the same goals as Micro. Dapr is from the team who built Azure Service Fabric, which is basically a microservices platform, and with this they've decided to take an open source angle for kubernetes. We're going the other way. Open source is great, but it's not enough. Micro 3.0 is a hosted platform and focused on removing that operation burden but also providing value add higher level services. I think like most things you either prefer dapr's primitives or ours. As was the same with go-micro vs grpc-go. Micro can be self hosted. It's an open source project for which you can find the docs here https://micro.mu https://micro.mu.
yewenjie 6y ago
Does anyone have a link to the detailed limits of the free plan? I don't see any numbers on the pricing page.
- asim 6y ago
  Here you go https://docs.m3o.com/faq#fair-usage-policy https://docs.m3o.com/faq#fair-usage-policy

Hi all! Co-author of the post here and founder of Micro. Let me know if you have any questions. As always interested to discuss and get feedback. Cheers, Asim.

by asim 6y ago

Hi all! Co-author of the post here and founder of Micro. Let me know if you have any questions. As always interested to discuss and get feedback. Cheers, Asim.

tmikaeld 6y ago

Why invest time and money in your platform, instead of an established one like Cloudflare and their new Workers platform? Features are similar, especially when combined with Cloudflare Access (50 users free).

friendly_chap 6y ago
It's open source and you can self host it yourself if you want. Micro also provides a full development model for services development, since it's also a framework and not "just" a platform. Disclosure: I'm a contributor.
- tomcam 6y ago
  > It's open source and you can self host it yourself if you want. But you can’t use it commercially, right? https://github.com/micro/services/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/micro/services/blob/master/LICENSE
asim 6y ago
Good question. Cloudflare and many other platforms like it are closed source and you're mostly locked in to a very custom development model, there's also no escape hatch. For what you get, it's great, I love cloudflare but I also think we're in a world where being open source first matters. Micro is open source (https://github.com/micro/micro https://github.com/micro/micro) and that's how it started life. It's now "source available" in the sense that we use a license that stops AWS from picking up and hosting it for profit without contributing back, but it's otherwise completely usable for any purpose. Micro as an open source platform enables the ability to self host, develop locally and move beyond our offering m3o.com. I think it also creates trust and thats something we're going to really be thinking about a lot in the next 5-10 years. We're also looking beyond the core primitives themselves towards these value add services in the category of "backend", "logistics", etc. I think providing a generic platform as a service isn't good enough anymore, we really have to push a lot further.
- tmikaeld 6y ago
  Thanks, I'll take a deeper look and check it out.

monkin 6y ago

What’s with your name? Micro? Mu? m3o? Are you thinking about establishing one name for the whole brand? Especially as “micro” isn’t good searching term, it’s more like “go”. :)

asim 6y ago
Yea good question. Micro started with the domain micro.mu for the open source project and we recently found m3o works as a nice moniker and were able to get the dotcom so I think for searchability its "m3o" but the name is Micro, that's what we've always been since inception. And yea Go users search for Golang :) so Micro users search for m3o.

mindhash 6y ago

Looks interesting. Where is the data from services stored? I went through the docs and code, couldn't figure this out

asim 6y ago
The data is stored on the platform itself through something called a "store" service. In the long term we'll offer exporting that or backing by your own data storage if that's preferable. Micro provides built in primitives for auth, config, storage, etc. You can learn more about them here https://micro.mu https://micro.mu

FlorianRappl 6y ago

Thanks for sharing! How is it different to DAPR (https://dapr.io https://dapr.io) (besides using a side car to enable all kinds of frameworks instead of just go)? Are the goals similar or actually quite different? How difficult is it to run it completely independent and on premise (i.e., define custom storage provider etc)? Any examples available? Thanks!

asim 6y ago
I think Dapr has the same goals as Micro. Dapr is from the team who built Azure Service Fabric, which is basically a microservices platform, and with this they've decided to take an open source angle for kubernetes. We're going the other way. Open source is great, but it's not enough. Micro 3.0 is a hosted platform and focused on removing that operation burden but also providing value add higher level services. I think like most things you either prefer dapr's primitives or ours. As was the same with go-micro vs grpc-go. Micro can be self hosted. It's an open source project for which you can find the docs here https://micro.mu https://micro.mu.

yewenjie 6y ago

Does anyone have a link to the detailed limits of the free plan? I don't see any numbers on the pricing page.

asim 6y ago
Here you go https://docs.m3o.com/faq#fair-usage-policy https://docs.m3o.com/faq#fair-usage-policy