skifunkster

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   by skifunkster 6y ago

   In this scenario we did have an account manager at Stripe, however fortunately and unfortunately the show brought in somewhere in the region of 7X the initial target. Servereless stampeding a payment processor like Stripe as opposed to some
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   by skifunkster 6y ago

   For previous donation platforms operating at same scale on AWS we use Serverless Framework and have our own lambda wrapper which wraps the code and provides monitoring, etc... For this we just wrote straight up Node JS and plumbing through
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   by skifunkster 6y ago

   Spikey, unpredictable traffic, serverless is the way. Sorry about the title.
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   by skifunkster 6y ago

   Yeah, we literally used it as a stripe proxy and to serve frontend. All data was served in stripe and then queried using Stripe Sigma, their flavour of Presto. Can tell you the total cost from RTE does Comic Relief, which was the same size,
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   by skifunkster 6y ago

   Have run the same size campaign on lambda and cloudflare now, so can probably speak from experience. Cloudflare definitely has a place, but is definitely nowhere near as feature rich as the AWS ecosystem. For this use case it was perfect. L
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   Using Serverless for unpredictable traffic to for TV fundraiser event(medium.com)

   76 points by skifunkster 6y ago|24 comments
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   Created a simple programming news aggregator using Sails.js(devalate.com)

   1 points by skifunkster 11y ago|0 comments