JAWS
Dev tools
serverless framework
SHOW HN2015
375points
124comments
#31of 2,565 in 2015
Top 2%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
12 positive, 33 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 23 critical, out of 72 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Idea: 3 for, 8 againstExecution: 0 for, 8 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful approach for removing servers
From 3 comments
Great work - looks like a really useful piece to help you quickly get going using the AWS stack and Lambda/JS. The biggest issue I've always found is the extra steps between…
mands on HNGreat experiment here. Lambda has been intriguing me for a while. More and more, as I scope out work for clients, I'm finding bits that could probably be run as Lambda processes…
hoprocker on HNExcellent work, thanks for sharing!
techpeace on HN
Cheaper than always-on servers for light use
From 1 comment
Absolutely. You pay for EC2/DO even if your app isn't used. With JAWS, you pay only when your app is used. Here is Lambdas pricing FYI: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/
ac360 on HN
Objections
Name collides with screen reader JAWS
From 3 comments
First of all nice work! Second there is already a product out there called jaws: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness/JAWS The last time I checked (and my…
zer00eyz on HNYou may want to reconsider the name since JAWS is widley known as the defacto application for accessibility screen readers. As far as legal stuff goes the american federation of…
imechura on HNJaws already exists as a software project, for the blind. Perhaps I am exposing ignorance about the needs of the blind community, but it would seem to me that a primarily…
joeevans1000 on HN
Vendor lock-in to AWS
From 2 comments
It's a bit what Couch Apps where supposed to be, without the vendor-locking part... > no server But you have to rely on AWS infrastructure. So what you meant is no server…
aikah on HNSeems great for cloud applications. Only thing I would worry about is vendor lock in.
jitix on HN
Lambda limits and cold starts
From 2 comments
Note that you should be wary of AWS Lambda limits. We blew through them on our first day directing traffic on a system we were testing with Lambda. They were able to increase our…
krschultz on HNIs it really true that Lambdas can take 5 minutes to start up? Doesn't that rule them out as useful for things like running a website (instead of just background jobs)? Or does…
silverlight on HN
Requests
Python support
From 1 comment
Yes! Yes! Yes! Now I just wish there was Python support.
curiousjorge on HN
Relational database (RDS) integration
From 2 comments
Love this idea, but I wish there were an official integration between Lambda and RDS; I don't want to use DynamoDB.
ahallock on HNJAWS uses DynamoDB. Aurora (RDS) support is coming soon!
ac360 on HN
Longer Lambda execution times
From 1 comment
Really cool... Now we just need longer Lambda execution times (current limit is 60s) and a proper crontab. For a complete auth flow you can also check:…
joeyspn on HN
Questions
Pricing compared to traditional server apps
From 2 comments
This seems very convenient... Is there some blog/resource that provides an estimate of the pricing when we go this route, instead of a seperate server for the APIs. I would like…
foolinaround on HNThis is interesting, thanks for sharing. Was a bit confused about lambda. So this would be cheaper than just having an EC2/DO instance running flask with a couple of endpoints?
Jonovono on HN
Protecting AWS keys in browser code
From 1 comment
How to protect access keys to S3 and RDS in this approach. Everyone can extract them from your HTML/JS code and use for their own purpose.
chebum on HN
Alternatives named
Static sites on S3 with CloudFront
From 2 comments
Unfortunately my client is closely coupled to a venture I'm doing on the side. I won't be open sourcing it. If it's just static web pages you need without mutable data, you can…
DocSavage on HNI’m almost at a point where I think static websites are a solved problem. Compile your website with whatever (Jekyll, Octopress, etc), save it to GitHub for good measure, and…
kmfrk on HN
Divshot static hosting
From 1 comment
Nice work on the project! Big fan of the graphics also :) Reminds me of Divshot [0], a heroku-like service for hosting static sites. It's great that you can roll your own site,…
xasos on HN
StackHut
From 1 comment
Great work - looks like a really useful piece to help you quickly get going using the AWS stack and Lambda/JS. The biggest issue I've always found is the extra steps between…
mands on HN
LambdAuth
From 1 comment
Really cool... Now we just need longer Lambda execution times (current limit is 60s) and a proper crontab. For a complete auth flow you can also check:…
joeyspn on HN