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Mark Drew • Edited

I know ZEIT since 2017, I have seen its products evolve, documentation etc. I can give a totally honest opinion of ZEIT : )

2017 & 2018 (until the middle of the year) a container-based approach

Pros:

  • Really everything was through a single command

Cons:

  • the documentation was not so clear
  • you pay much more
  • not so scalable
  • waiting times were long

2018 (October) - It's time Serverless <3

pros:

  • the application can scale automatically
  • pay on-deman
  • the documentation improved a lot 😎
  • the guides created by the community are being promoted
  • integration GitHub and GitLab
  • access to your app without any waiting time (thank to builder of ▲now)
  • a community in spectrum
  • excellent customer support

Cons:

  • now.json, It is necessary to define it when you want to implement an application of node but very soon it will not be necessary to define now.json. You will only have to execute the now command and that's it 😍

I hope I have helped 🙏