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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

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.

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.