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by tmp_anon_22 1421 days ago
That project looks awesome, there are so many opportunities to take entrenched cloud products that leave a lot to be desired and turn them into smaller businesses that better serve the customers that AWS largely ignores due to their preference for volume.
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Thanks, the self-hostable AWS lambda is actually just one part. On top you have a flow builder and platform which is aiming to provide an OSS self-hostable alternative to solutions like pipedream, airplane, aws step. I am not necessarily aiming to replace AWS per se because a great way to host it is EC2 but what I want to reduce is lock-in into proprietary services and architecture complexity, not every lambda need to scale to a 1M req/s.

Supabase is actually a great comparable, complementary and inspiration. Ideally, windmill allow tech teams and startups to focus on their business logic of their internal tools, not the infra to run it.

I particularly appreciate the project structure of the linked repo. Its good to see actual production application code beyond a hello-world todo style app for languages like Rust and toolkits like Svelte. I look forward to going through the various pieces and learning them better by example.