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by dboreham 970 days ago
> I really don’t understand how people can trust platforms like Vercel

It's not an apples to apples choice. The people who use Vercel don't know anything about how to deploy on AWS. That's the whole point of Vercel. Whether or not they can be trusted is really orthogonal to the reason they were selected as a provider. But that said, they're just a layer over AWS so why should they be significantly less trustworthy? I haven't used Vercel in production, but I have used a similar "layer over AWS" service (Aptible). The problem where wasn't to do with QoS or support, but rather that the narrowing of the functionality of the "interface" (which is pretty much the point) ends up causing frustration when you want to integrate with other stuff you're doing in AWS.
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Swizec 970 days ago
> The people who use Vercel don't know anything about how to deploy on AWS

Ehhhh. I’ve been deploying to AWS professionally for years and I’d choose Vercel for a personal project any day of the week.

Life’s too short to play devops/sysadmin/sre without someone paying you the big bucks.

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bingemaker 970 days ago
This. Anyone who has done enough ops knows that a platform (Vercel, Heroku, Netlify etc) which lets devs connect a git repo with a couple of clicks, and deploys automatically happen is a good devops experience.

This is great for personal projects. This is great for budding projects in a professional setup as well.

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Swizec 970 days ago
If I never again have to write a httpd.conf or nginx.conf file from scratch it will be too soon.
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OJFord 970 days ago
Either you mean 'too late' or that's a complicated way of making a dissenting point?
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Swizec 970 days ago
It’s an idiom that means I never want to do this again. Even if I waited an infinite amount of time, it would still be too soon to have to write httpd.conf or nginx.conf files again.

https://hinative.com/questions/337452

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OJFord 970 days ago
I'm a native English speaker, I'm well aware of the (misused here) idiom.

You could also have said 'ever' instead of 'never', that would be a simpler and better fix on re-reading.

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elforce002 970 days ago
This x100. I use gcp, DO, and Vultr, for almost everything (ml, be, vas, etc.) but for webapps, vercel wins 9/10 times.
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