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In a long time till now, Heroku still doesn't support mounting volumes. Is volume mounting the hardest problem in cloud computing ? All buzzwords till now is
by revskill 4y ago
In a long time till now, Heroku still doesn't support mounting volumes.
Is volume mounting the hardest problem in cloud computing ?
All buzzwords till now is scammy in the sense that, it doesn't make any sense when you can't cache your data in your local file system.
- simonw 4y ago"Is volume mounting the hardest problem in cloud computing ?" It kind of is. If you don't provide a mutable filesystem, you get a whole bunch of benefits: Need to scale to handle more traffic? Start another instance and add it to the load balancer. App crashes for any reason at all (including a hardware failure)? Fire up a fresh instance on another physical server and load balance there instead. Want to provide zero-downtime deployments? Start a new instance running with the new code, switch the load balancer over to serving from that instead, then shut down the old instance. Each of these becomes a LOT more complicated if you offer read-write volume support.
- Existenceblinks 4y agoThis. DO app platform doesn't support mounting their volume either (wait for 3 years now, and probably won't happen forever). I wonder how render.com make it like it's trivial while the others just assume you wanted a block storage .. nope.