Posted by bumbledraven 20 hours ago
"In some tech circles, that is an unusual statement. (“In this house, we curse computers!”) I get it, computers can be really frustrating. But I like computers. I always have. It is really fun getting computers to do things. Painful, sure, but the results are worth it. Small microcontrollers are fun, desktops are fun, phones are fun, and servers are fun, whether racked in your basement or in a data center across the world. I like them all."
The reality: Everyone reading his blog or this HN entry loves computers.
I like the way you can tell it what you want and it makes it. Very cool.
- I'm building a server farm in my homelab.
- I'm doing a small startup to see if this idea works.
- We're taking on AWS by being more cost effective. Funding secured.
Perhaps the VM idea is old. The unit is a worker encapsulated in some deployable container.
In the world of Cloudflare workers - especially durable objects that are guaranteed to have one of them running in the world with a tightly bound database.
The way I think of apps has changed.
My take is devs want a way to say “run this code, persist this info, microsecond latency, never go down, scale within this $ budget”
It’s crazy how good a deal $5/mo cloudflare standard plan is.
Obviously many startups raise millions and they gotta spend millions.
However the new age of scale to zero, wake up in millisecond, process the request and go back to sleep is a new paradigm.
Vs old school of over provision for max capacity you will ever need.
Google has a similar, scale to zero container story but their cold startup time is in seconds. Too slow.