Florian Schulz 2022-08-30 12:56:23 Question: Where can I run a WebSocket server for free (hobby project)? Heroku is limited (doesn’t run the whole month and will soon kill free plans). Alternatives?
Florian Schulz 2022-08-30 14:36:29 Never heard of it. Looks like there’s a free tier that could work. Love the illustrations!
Ivan Reese 2022-08-30 14:49:07 (Fly and Render are the two services everyone mentions immediately after lamenting the slow death of Heroku)
Tony Worm 2022-08-30 14:59:46 Pretty much every major cloud provider has a free tier, as well as many of the developer focussed tools like cloudflare and netlify. In other words, you have lots of choices
Tony Worm 2022-08-30 15:03:50 I don't use them, I only use the big 3, primarily GCP for it's superior DX
Florian Schulz 2022-08-30 15:22:25 I tried AWS, but found it very confusing and was quite shocked how bad it was – given it’s so popular and used in many major products. Also ended up paying for stuff that wasn’t running, just because I enabled a load balancer. Google Cloud Platform looks cleaner for sure 🙂
Tony Worm 2022-08-30 17:09:32 Load balancers typically cost money because you need a public IP for them, which is what they are actually charging the flat rate for.
Tony Worm 2022-08-30 17:10:38 GCP is nice because the product names help you understand what they are. I never understood AWS's rational for randomly named products
Jonathan Arnett 2022-08-31 00:22:49 Not really sure where to ask this, but: Does anyone know what happened to Isomorph? Not too long ago I was thinking of building exactly this and was delighted that someone already had—only it's as if its very existence has been scrubbed from the internet.
Jamie Brandon 2022-08-31 22:57:26 I'm organizing a coding jam: hytradboi.com/jam
The theme is the same as the hytradboi conference:
Turning a data-centric lens onto familiar problems to yield strange new solutions (and maybe exciting new problems).
Nick Smith 2022-08-31 23:43:26 I think I’ll try to hack something together for this jam, but I have no idea how far I’ll get in a couple of days 🤔.
Tom Larkworthy 2022-09-01 07:47:18 cool, maybe I can make some progress with the open source Firebase server
Breck Yunits 2022-08-31 23:22:47 Hi all! I'm looking for people that want to write guest posts for PLDB.com. If interested, email me breck@pldb.com for more info.
