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Deploy infinitely scalable serverless apps, apis, and sites in seconds to AWS.

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8.8KGitHub stars
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Deploy infinitely scalable serverless apps, apis, and sites in seconds to AWS.

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HN mentions by year23 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-07-14 13:54:50 UTC to 2021-04-19 10:56:59 UTC.

0369122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 2 submissions, 10 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12210
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Up deploys infinitely scalable serverless apps, APIs, and static websites in seconds, so you can get back to working on what makes your product unique. With Up there's no need to worry about managing or scaling machines, paying for idle servers, worrying about logging infrastructure or alerting. Just deploy your app with $ up and you're done! Use the free OSS version, or subscribe to Up Pro for a small monthly fee for unlimited use within your company, there is no additional cost per team-member or application. Deploy dozens or even hundreds of applications for pennies thanks to AWS Lambda's cost effective nature. About Up focuses on deploying "vanilla" HTTP servers so there's nothing new to learn, just develop with your favorite existing frameworks such as Express, Koa, Django, Golang net/http or others. Up currently supports Node.js, Golang, Python, Java, Crystal, Clojure and static sites out of the box. Up is platform-agnostic, supporting AWS Lambda and API Gateway as the first targets. You can think of Up as self-hosted Heroku style user experience for a fraction of the price, with the security, isolation, flexibility, and scalability of AWS. Check out the documentation for more instructions and links, or try one of the examples, or chat with us in Slack. OSS Features Features of the free open-source edition. Pro Features Up Pro provides additional features for production-ready applications such as encrypted environment variables, error alerting, unlimited team members, unlimited applications, priority email support, and global deployments for $19.99/mo USD. Visit Subscribing to Up Pro to get started. Quick Start Install Up: $ curl -sf https://up.apex.sh/install | sh Create an app.js file: require('http').createServer((req, res) => { res.end('Hello World\n') }).listen(process.env.PORT) Deploy the app: $ up Open it in the browser, or copy the url to your clipboard: $ up url -o $ up url -c
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If Knative is more self-hosted FaaS than PaaS, that explains the core use case for Apollo; a traditional 12-Factor App PaaS for Kubernetes/Docker-Swarm. Knative supports a Serving Spec for routing (like AWS API Gateway) but doesn't seem to have buildpacks for 12-Factor App frameworks, as far as I can see. Apex Up [1] deploys web apps on top of AWS Lambda using Amazon's API Gateway as the RESTful routing proxy. Maybe something like Apex Up is required to transform Knative into a PaaS for historical 12-Factor App frameworks. ZEIT Now 2.0 did the same thing for Serverless (Cloudflare Workers only?) but the company has been renamed Vercel and has pivoted around Next.js. [1] https://github.com/apex/up
In Apollo – An Extensible Docker-Based Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Some of the problems are easily solvable. I use up[https://github.com/apex/up] which is an open-source serverless framework to solve them. a. it is possible to have multiple environments[https://up.docs.apex.sh/#configuration.stages] b. you can run code on your machine[https://up.docs.apex.sh/#commands.start] c. regarding vendo lockin; alternative serveless providers(apart from aws) are planned [https://github.com/apex/up/issues/4] d. You're contributing to centralization of wealth and power instead of helping small companies and small open source projects. up is open-source but also has a paid plan[https://up.docs.apex.sh/#guides.subscribing_to_up_pro] e. It takes the fun out of coding. I'm not sure about that.
In Serverless: Cold Start War
I have released dozens of packages reaching hundreds of thousands of people and, according to SO, helped devs millions of times in different ways. In total I have been donated the amount of $10 (lifetime). I am considering different ways of making revenue now from my side projects since it is not sustainable. I even had a horrifying experience when someone pretended he was donating only to get me to use his cryptocrap. What a f* waste of time that was. Probably the only ones who can make it out of donations are the best known devs in their fields like Sindre Sorhus [1]. Others, while also really well known, have gone the open-source-but-pay-for-pro route like TJ [2] and John O'Nolan [3]. Thinking you can live purely of passive donations is, at best, naive. Here are the statistics of 30k users and 80k page views on my latest project that n
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In About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations

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