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Comment by dhagz

This looks neat, but man. I'm not a fan of code generation magic. It's part of the reason I moved away from the Rails ecosystem - even though I knew what Rails was doing under the hood, the magic started to give me the heebie-jeebies. Maybe I'm weird, but I'd rather spend 10-15 minutes writing some boilerplate for a service and control the code than trust a third-party tool to do it for me.

I also feel like this is doing too much to be a framework, in a way. Like, if it just did the code generation, cool. But add in the secret management, cloud deployment and migration stuff, and it starts to feel like a platform - which, coincidentally, it is. With pricing and everything. I can't use this to build a service that runs on AWS/GCP/my own servers - at least it doesn't look like it from first glace.

So if this were actually just a framework that could be separated from the platform stuff, I'd be willing to try it out. But as is, I'd rather write boilerplate and be able to 'go run' my service and deploy it wherever I want.

EDIT: Just found that I could deploy to another cloud provider, which is nice. I wish I didn't have to manage that via a web interface, and that it supported just building a container I could deploy anywhere.

parent dhagz 5 years ago

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