This week, our Serverless expert is AWS Community Builder Tycko Franklin, our spotlight falls on AWS Community Builder Lee Priest, we look at the latest AWS service releases, news, articles, & more!
I've come to appreciate DHH's choice to leave the cloud. Obviously I'm a big serverless fan myself, and would build applications in a different way than they do. But if you're running on a big Rails+MySQL monolith, and you can leverage tools like Kamal for deployment (which I've used for some side projects and it's truly delightful), then I can really see the attraction of running on your own servers. They can save a lot of money that way, and there's not much value that the cloud can add for an application like that.
I've come to appreciate DHH's choice to leave the cloud. Obviously I'm a big serverless fan myself, and would build applications in a different way than they do. But if you're running on a big Rails+MySQL monolith, and you can leverage tools like Kamal for deployment (which I've used for some side projects and it's truly delightful), then I can really see the attraction of running on your own servers. They can save a lot of money that way, and there's not much value that the cloud can add for an application like that.