I've seen a lot of barebones serverless sites, but this one really takes the price. About that, would be nice to know the cost? Or at a minimum some docs, _before_ wasting time on it.
Hey, this is Mish from EdgeNode! I'd take it as a lesson :)
We're still very early in our journey and didn't expect it to land on HN today, but here we come.
The pricing is per vCPU + Memory per second allocated during the request. If there are no active requests, we scale the instances down to 0 so you don't have to pay for unused resources.
We're starting a private beta (soon for everyone), so feel free to fill out the form on our website!
As aerzen pointed out, your homepage pegged my Ryzen 9 5900HS iGPU at 100%, you should consider frame limiting your spinning globe, or render it using some other technology or even rasterize it. It is completely unnecessary to have it consume so much computing
I love to see competitors to the Big Dawgs (Fly.io*, etc.), nice work taking them on, and best of luck!
Nobody is asking but I must say that I would be hard-pressed to switch to your product having seen this launch offering. Especially since I need to fill out a typeform. Even if you did have a compelling reason to switch, I'd probably only find out if I filled out your form, which I probably would only do if I didn't like my current situation, which isn't the case.
*I guess probably "big" from a popularity standpoint rather than company size, whatever
Would love to read more details on this - at least, how does the flow to deployment work, where are the regions, can we restrict containers to a geography (e.g. if my workload has to run in the US can that be done?)
Hello Dmitriy,
funny how we always stumble upon each other ;)
In my experience, Cloudflare Workers is used more like a middleware/routing mechanism than a fully-fledged application platform, so we're not feeling any pressure from that side of the table
Yes!
We run globally by default. And it's a true serverless offering - we only bill for the resources allocated during request, otherwise the containers will become idle
EdgeNode is based on top of public cloud and on a completely different stack technologically
That is a little thin on details. Its intriguing at least, but I want to know more before signing up for something.
Also interesting that it says it served my request from a location that is pretty far from me. I figured with 180+ CDN locations, I'd get something closer. Why is that? Maybe it'd be super obvious if there was a little more info on how it works.
The CDN is only there to cache static resources, but the page itself is rendered in one of the 37 edge regions. Sometimes, especially if you're on restricted/mobile network it could route to a incorrect location. This will be solved before we do a public launch!
I kind of hate the way they handle write calls, they tell you to just try it and if it fails with a readonly error your app has to respond with a specific header that lets fly redirect the whole request to the main region.
On one hand it's fairly trivial, on the other it adds quite a bit of latency and now you need to customize your application code to the service(s) you're using, breaking portability.
Since in their pg stack already includes proxies, I'd love for them to have the proxy simply redirect write queries to the correct location instead.
At this point, my first choice would be https://www.cockroachlabs.com/ (CockroachDB SaaS), which can allow for distributed instances... if your concern is more localized reads. Most cloud databases have tradeoffs. CockroachDB's advantages are pretty good horizontal scaling and mostly compatible to PostgreSQL from the wire protocol, datatypes and most basic queries.
The down sides, is it does help to at least understand horizontal database scaling, sharding, etc. so that you can use techniques that will avoid the worst bottlenecks (namely sequential number generation and joins).
Not sure what this provider offers and there are definitely other solutions from other cloud providers and service (Mongo, and others) or self-hosting a multi-region db with ScyllaDB/Cassandra even.
Have a look at YugabyteDB. Fully distributed Postgres with geo data placement constraints, replication, read replicas, joins, triggers, Postgres extensions. It's actual Postgres under the hood. They offer managed solutions but YugabyteDB can be self-hosted and the database is Apache 2 licensed.
