"Migrating to Up from Now"

[j]

trafficstars

(not a real issue)

We've been users of Up for a while now and have used all of the current lambda deployment implementations and Up has always treated us the best.

With that said, Now v2 was just launched and none of our apps work that are on it (because they were either Docker deploys or their new version just doesn't work because it does too much magic).

It's a good time to maybe write a blog post about migrating for many reasons. Up is cheaper, works, and doesn't have the same current v2 limits.

Unrelated:

• When are other events (SNS mainly) going to be supported if ever?

Thanks, @tj. Been following you for years (esp back in your node days :P)

[tj]

I'm not too familiar with their stuff, which issues were you running into?

[komuw]

a lot of people seem frustrated with now v2 -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407503

[tj]

hmm yeah sounds like a strange departure from v1, this looks closer to Up now

[j]

Yup, exactly. I enjoyed zeits stuff and was lambda is a comforting move. We had some stuff in production that went down many times and came running back to Up. We want to use only up but use serverless for SNS based services.

[tj]

I didn't realize they were literally repurposing AWS Lambda as well hahah.... I guess they finally figured out that makes more sense than rolling your own.

Not sure it makes sense for me to compete with a startup doing the same thing though, it's much harder to afford it without all that free $$, I'm not making much from this project right now. Millions of dollars for some routing and unrelated OSS projects for marketing, such a joke 😆

[j]

@tj no s**t huh, lol. They really lost their user-base. I mean, "Serverless" is already a thing. Up is already a thing. I don't see why they try to compete with Serverless when their first iteration has no support for anything BUT http events. The docker deployments were their bread and butter. In fact, I had apps that were too complex for Lambda and started going the Now + Docker route and next day the v2 announcement happened and I scrapped it. Their Cloudflare partnership was pretty cool though.

[siegesmund]

@tj, one big difference between now v2 and Up is that now v2 pushes developers to decompose each route into an individual lambda, a la the Serverless framework as I understand it. In this way, it looks more like Serverless than Up to me.

[tj]

Neither need millions in funding to make some AWS API calls haha... it doesn't exactly take much skill.