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Clive Da
Clive Da

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glitch, jexia and zeit serverless services

is there too much choice in the serverless space ! i am so confused now !

at first glance

  • Glitch looks good for simple projects
  • fly docker containers on the edge
  • Jexia documentation looks amazing
  • Zeit Now looks complex but good for heavyweight use (and a 3 line config file is NOT zero config to me)

which one do you use ?

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Richard Moot

Glitch. It is so easy to use, but the possibilities are nearly endless. I think the main problem I tend to run into there is when I want to do things much more out of the ordinary. Mainly like when I was making React examples and having to modify building and running them, I had quite a few times I capped out the resources available in my container.

I tried out Zeit and its really cool, I like how simple things could be, but I use Google Domains. When I tried pointing my Name Servers to them, I suddenly realized that I didn't actually have that much control over the DNS records. If you don't plan on needing that much for your DNS records, I think it could be fine (or if you don't mind just using the domains they give you. Otherwise, the way they handle serverless functions seems pretty cool.

Never header of Jexia though.