[arihant]

Or, you realize that your processes are so minimalistic and well structured due to lack of options, that you only have to write a custom request router over the weekend to migrate.

Also, Lambda-like options are available with most PaaS providers now.

It is not much different and might be easier than migrating web app from a custom PaaS. The only issue is, and has always been, the migration of data. And I don't see that getting solved until some startup writes a bunch of layers on top of a bunch of providers. It's very tricky, for good reasons.

[IanCal]

> Also, Lambda-like options are available with most PaaS providers now.

Which other ones are there? I used to use PiCloud until they were bought out by dropbox and it atrophied. Shame, it was exactly what I wanted in a service.

[_Marak_]

http://hook.io is an open-source microservice platform.

We launched a month before Amazon Lambda, and have better features like full support for streaming HTTP.

[georgefrick]

But you don't have future price information; so it's a bit hard for an actual enterprise recommendation. This will cost X in the future, but it's free for now? Free for now is great for me as a tinkerer/developer; but I couldn't recommend it to a client?

[_Marak_]

We do offer paid accounts, and in fact already have a nice size group of paying customers.

Still in the process of establishing our service tiers, but our basic hosting plan starts at $5.00 per month.

http://hook.io/pricing

[IanCal]

Thanks, I'll have a look into that.

[robbs]

IronWorker from Iron.io is similar to Lambda.

[ddorian43]

ironworker is not per-request, it's like jobs that you schedule from a queue

[sync]

Iron workers can be triggered by HTTP post webhook requests.

[parasubvert]

Pivotal Web Services (which is like BlueMix, Cloud Foundry based, and you can run your own as it is open source) http://run.pivotal.io

[IanCal]

Cheers, being able to move on if I wanted is a definite benefit, thanks.

[jorde]

Webtask by Auth0 https://webtask.io/

[arihant]

Google Cloud - Google Dataflow, Certain App Engine APIs

IBM Bluemix - IBM Workload Scheduler, RabbitMQ (this is weak, but similar functionality can be achieved)

Microsoft Azure - Apache Storm (generally available now)

[IanCal]

Thanks for the list, I'd not looked into the google offerings for a while, they're actually much closer to what I'm after now.