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Bernard Chhun

Like most general questions, the sane answer is "it depends" :)

I personnally use a mix of those based on:

  • what I'm working on
  • who I'm working for

Examples:

  • for tutorials and demo nodejs apps, I love using glitch.com/ aka serverless.
  • for a client that has a legacy app connected to a mainframe-based ERP, I'll use whatever the client is using and automate the parts I can automate.
  • for long term personal projects, I've been loving and using webfaction.com/ and digitalocean.com/ with ansible
  • for projects at my workplace, it's AWS and chef all the way.

With that said, all those tools are abstractions of configuring stuff yourself, so what do you want to abstract away ?

Do you feel the need to do it ? Or does it come from peer pressure ?

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Allison Seboldt

"It depends" is always the case with software. I want to get a feel for what's popular. Maybe try something new that I haven't considered.

What do you do at work with AWS? I dabbled with lambda but felt it was restrictive.

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Bernard Chhun • Edited

Aws Lambda is a lightweight compute solution, so it's not its goal to do cpu intensive things.

We're using the following AWS products:

  • route 51 for DNS configurations
  • EC2 for backend apps
  • S3 for static files storage
  • Cognito for user sign-up, sign-in, and access control

We're also using netlify.com/ to deploy our frontend/SPA apps.