Lever OS
Infrastructure
self-hosted serverless platform
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
1 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.11.
Idea: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Sticky resource routing useful for data sharding
From 1 comment
Interesting bit from the FAQ: "We rely heavily on Docker and Docker Swarm for containers, orchestration and networking. Other pieces of tech we use are Consul for service…
zbjornson on HN
Open source alternative reduces vendor lock-in
From 1 comment
So... this is backend infrastructure (i.e. it runs on a server) to let your team deploy "severless" apps... So they're serverless. Except the server you're running it on. And the…
stephenr on HN
Objections
Calling it serverless is misleading since servers still run
From 2 comments
So... this is backend infrastructure (i.e. it runs on a server) to let your team deploy "severless" apps... So they're serverless. Except the server you're running it on. And the…
stephenr on HN> The serverless concept solves this problem, because it requires no DevOps to build and deploy applications at scale This is wonderfully naive. A great goal, but hopelessly…
vidarh on HN
Ops concerns like logging and monitoring not addressed
From 1 comment
> The serverless concept solves this problem, because it requires no DevOps to build and deploy applications at scale This is wonderfully naive. A great goal, but hopelessly…
vidarh on HN
No data persistence yet
From 1 comment
> The serverless concept solves this problem, because it requires no DevOps to build and deploy applications at scale This is wonderfully naive. A great goal, but hopelessly…
vidarh on HN
Requests
Ability to provision instances automatically
From 1 comment
Interesting bit from the FAQ: "We rely heavily on Docker and Docker Swarm for containers, orchestration and networking. Other pieces of tech we use are Consul for service…
zbjornson on HN
Support for Python and Java
From 1 comment
Your documentation says you support Node and Go. Do you have plans to support any other technologies?
jackcosgrove on HN
Questions
How load balancing works without a central orchestrator
From 1 comment
Interesting bit from the FAQ: "We rely heavily on Docker and Docker Swarm for containers, orchestration and networking. Other pieces of tech we use are Consul for service…
zbjornson on HN
How it compares to AWS Lambda
From 2 comments
I'm not sure I fully understand. Can you compare this to AWS Lambda?
skrowl on HNSo how is this better than Lambda or Iron.io Push Queues?
biznickman on HN
Alternatives named
Serverless Framework
From 1 comment
It looks like Serverless? https://github.com/serverless/serverless
Thaxll on HN
AWS Lambda
From 2 comments
A big part of the value of AWS Lambda is that it allows you to glue together other AWS services with custom application logic, similar to stored procedures in a database. Without…
csears on HNI'm not sure I fully understand. Can you compare this to AWS Lambda?
skrowl on HN
Zappa
From 1 comment
This reminds me of Zappa [0], only Zappa actually runs on AWS Lambdas. Although they readily admit it takes a lot of hacks to get WSGI working within a Lambda function. 0:…
kolanos on HN
Iron.io
From 1 comment
So how is this better than Lambda or Iron.io Push Queues?
biznickman on HN