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   by nzoschke 8y ago

   I make the go server/package the repo and add a web/ subdirectory for my static and dynamic JavaScript code, plus a little bit of Makefile glue. Here is a boilerplate Go Lambda app with a Node Lambda function and a static Vue app:
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   by nzoschke 8y ago

   Nice guide. Going through the motions of setting up my first API Gateway and Lambda was eye opening to me. There are a ton of options in these two services — rate limiting, authorizers, concurrency, monitoring, etc. — that point to how much
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   by nzoschke 8y ago

   These lessons match muni experience building https://github.com/nzoschke/gofaas Except I opt for Golang and the Serverless Application Model (SAM). Go let’s you ditch even more stuff by cross compiling binaries. And SA
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   by nzoschke 8y ago

   I'll add another vote for this. My use case is that I used Atlas to incorporate quickly -- which was lovely -- but the business is turning out to be a solo venture and the C Corp is overkill. The real user need is a way to reduce busin
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   by nzoschke 9y ago

   You’re welcome! Happy to share what I’ve learned building my own FaaS systems.
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   by nzoschke 9y ago

   AWS, particularly Lambda, step functions and budgets. The business is a marketplace addon. Lambda functions handle the webhooks to add, upgrade or remove the addon. Step functions handle guiding new users through onboarding, by sending emai
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   Introducing Fly Edge Apps(fly.io)

   154 points by nzoschke 9y ago|43 comments
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   by nzoschke 9y ago

   After the initial “cost” of figuring out how to configure the services, I’m finding the complexity far less than containers. Many concerns are removed from my application code and build and deploy systems by Lambda and API gateway. You just
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   by nzoschke 9y ago

   Plus a base image, Docker build system, image registry service and Docker runtime. Not to mention the load balancer and container orchestration to run the containers. It's not all bad. Container tools and services are ubiquitous, pleas
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    Check out the Serverless Application Model (SAM): https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model All of the manual configuration of API gateway vanishes because it builds up an implicit API gateway from your f
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    Deploying .zip files is one of my favorite features of Lambda, particularly when writing Go apps. Docker always felt wrong with Go to me. Why do I need a local VM, a Linux build service, an image registry and servers with container orchestr
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    A Brief History Of Time expanded my mind like few other books. Thank you Dr. Hawking.
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    I have been doing a lot of experiments with Go and Lambda and have an open source boilerplate app here: https://github.com/nzoschke/gofaas This benchmark leaves some room for improvement. With Lambda and X-ray you coul
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    Very nice. I’ve been working on Lambda apps in Golang too. Here’s a boilerplate app that can help you get started and understand the pieces: https://github.com/nzoschke/gofaas
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    I don’t think it’s necessarily better, I’m just sharing the approach I take these days.
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    Yes static YAML for config. It may be more verbose but it's simpler than Rail's ERB in YAML that requires a the Ruby VM plus application config to interpret. Yes external libraries. 80% of those are for testing (as is the Python s
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    Golang for the API, running on Lambda. React or Vue for the UI. FaaS isn’t a fad, new systems built on an event based architecture are simpler, more cost effective, and scalable than the traditional application server approach. And the reac
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    I simply love the go toolchain. The defacto standards for code formatting, linting and vetting, and the speed of builds and tests save tons of time. Both clock time and overall developer productivity. I have a GitHub CI service that verifie
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    Yes using dep full time for projects andnit has been great. I think it’s the right choice for now. It was going to be the one true solution and many people have stopped working on the alternatives. We’ll see where vgo lands, but dep is very
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    I’m starting to find a FaaS architecture can remove complexity for the developer. The CRUD functions themselves are easy to write and test. Then everything else is handled by the infrastructure layer. Auth, security policies, rate limiting,
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    Very nice. I built a boilerplate Lambda app that puts a lot of this cost effective architecture into practice: https://github.com/nzoschke/gofaas One difference is that I use SNS for cheap email or SMS error notificati
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    Show HN: Gofaas – Boilerplate Go and Lambda App(github.com)

    7 points by nzoschke 9y ago|0 comments
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    This app is simply amazing. Thank you! Are you worried about any Spotify terms of service issues?
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    I’ve had a lot of fun recently writing a Makefile for a Go and Lambda app: https://github.com/nzoschke/gofaas/blob/master/Makefile It started very verbose, one target for every Go program, until I figure
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    I’m working on a comprehensive resource for running Lambda Go projects here: https://github.com/nzoschke/gofaas The guide on periodicnworker functions is how I would build this pinger. https://github.com&#x2
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    > However, managing granular permissions for hundreds or thousands of functions is very hard to do. When building a FaaS app from scratch granular permissions are manageable. Functions are small, so it’s easy to reason about the capabili
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    I'm also finding Lambda is a very nice runtime for using the Golang toolchain. There's a packaging challenge, but Go is also easier to install than most languages (unzip the linux build and set GOROOT correctly). Then running `go
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    by nzoschke 9y ago

    I happen to know a few people on the Slack security team from a prior job. SalesForce, another SaaS business people trust to manage all their data. There's no question that Slack's budget is greater than my own. They have a large,
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    by nzoschke 10y ago

    This weekend I played with the Buffalo framework [1] which includes "pop" [2] which an ORM of sorts. I really enjoyed working with both. It's nowhere near as magical as Rails, but it totally reduced the amount of code/bo
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    by nzoschke 10y ago

    Hey, author of the blog post here. Getting buildpacks and Docker to work together has been interesting to say the least. But the result is very cool, it's refreshing to not always have to write Dockerfiles directly. Happy to answer any