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by mburst 2134 days ago
So cool to see all the different free services out there for getting in to web dev. I remember having to do graphic design work growing up to afford a shared hosting plan on my mom's credit card. Times have definitely changed :D

Lately I've been enjoying KubeSail's (https://kubesail.com/) free tier for playing around with some SSR things. A lot of the lambda like services don't do great with doing realtime stuff since they're just meant to run one piece of code then die a few seconds later
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erulabs 2134 days ago
Hey thanks! I’m the cofounder/CTO of KubeSail and this is more or less our purpose for existing! Our goal is to help people learn - open source tools and not black boxes - from just learning javascript to bootstrapping a company :)

Thanks so much for the shoutout!

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passthejoe 2134 days ago
This is a nice discovery. Thanks!
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jkarneges 2134 days ago
> A lot of the lambda like services don't do great with doing realtime stuff

Another way to handle this is by delegating the management of long-lived connections to a separate infrastructure layer. Then it's fine if the app runs/dies all the time, since it only needs to run when there's client activity. Some options are Fanout (disclosure: I'm its founder) and AWS API Gateway.

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