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I get this message: "Waking up... To keep Glitch projects fast for everyone inactive projects go to sleep and wake up on request." Ok so this website appears

I get this message: "Waking up... To keep Glitch projects fast for everyone inactive projects go to sleep and wake up on request." Ok so this website appears to be hosted by microservice. "to keep ... fast for everyone." Is anyone else bothered by this line that we're conditioned to accept that microservices are always faster? In my experience, even without the cold starts, they are often slower than traditional VPS hosted apps. Well then there's scalability... But looks like this still got the hug of death.

Kye 3y ago
He's the CEO of the company that provides the microservice. I assume he has some reason for not paying the upgrade price to make it always-on. Glitch is hosting + a development community. You might have seen an app hosted there: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=glitch.me https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=glitch.me Or heard of its old name, Fog Creek, if you've been around long enough. https://glitch.com/@glitch/fediverse-of-madness https://glitch.com/@glitch/fediverse-of-madness Some fun stuff in here: https://glitch.com/@community/community-roundup https://glitch.com/@community/community-roundup + https://glitch.com/@community/ https://glitch.com/@community/
- anildash 3y ago
  Thanks for mentioning this, the reason was.... I was messing around with my site. Hah! But should be okay now, apologies for tinkering while not knowing everyone was going to come by to visit.
duxup 3y ago
I don't disagree with your last sentence. But I do assume they mean scalability as far as the content service goes. The term microservice is a bit of a vague general term that just means "we thought about scalability" to me. It doesn't mean anything more than that to me without discussing it in detail. I think the idea of a server being overloaded at the moment there's something positive like high demand is something deeply ingrained in folks psyche. Accordingly it gets brought up on every sales call (once we're talking to the technical folks) and executives love to say "micro services".
rideontime 3y ago
12 minutes later and it loaded fine for me. Whatever they're doing seems to be keeping the site from dying outright.
marcosdumay 3y ago
It's saying that to keep it fast for everyone, it will remove resources from you when you are not using them. It's not really about microservices, and it's not implying they are fast. You could have this message about any kind of resource, it only means the service is trying to keep it cheap.
basil-rash 3y ago
It currently loading just fine while sitting on top of HN as the west coast wakes up. We’ll see, but that’s already better than a lot of platforms. I do wonder why a static site like this couldn’t just be put somewhere always-on, like github pages.

Kye 3y ago

He's the CEO of the company that provides the microservice. I assume he has some reason for not paying the upgrade price to make it always-on. Glitch is hosting + a development community. You might have seen an app hosted there: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=glitch.me https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=glitch.me Or heard of its old name, Fog Creek, if you've been around long enough. https://glitch.com/@glitch/fediverse-of-madness https://glitch.com/@glitch/fediverse-of-madness Some fun stuff in here: https://glitch.com/@community/community-roundup https://glitch.com/@community/community-roundup + https://glitch.com/@community/ https://glitch.com/@community/

anildash 3y ago
Thanks for mentioning this, the reason was.... I was messing around with my site. Hah! But should be okay now, apologies for tinkering while not knowing everyone was going to come by to visit.

duxup 3y ago

I don't disagree with your last sentence. But I do assume they mean scalability as far as the content service goes. The term microservice is a bit of a vague general term that just means "we thought about scalability" to me. It doesn't mean anything more than that to me without discussing it in detail. I think the idea of a server being overloaded at the moment there's something positive like high demand is something deeply ingrained in folks psyche. Accordingly it gets brought up on every sales call (once we're talking to the technical folks) and executives love to say "micro services".

rideontime 3y ago

12 minutes later and it loaded fine for me. Whatever they're doing seems to be keeping the site from dying outright.

marcosdumay 3y ago

It's saying that to keep it fast for everyone, it will remove resources from you when you are not using them. It's not really about microservices, and it's not implying they are fast. You could have this message about any kind of resource, it only means the service is trying to keep it cheap.

basil-rash 3y ago

It currently loading just fine while sitting on top of HN as the west coast wakes up. We’ll see, but that’s already better than a lot of platforms. I do wonder why a static site like this couldn’t just be put somewhere always-on, like github pages.