jorgecurio

can't believe this has only 8 upvotes and largely ignored by people because it's the inconvenient truth about startups, largely founded by people who are empty suits, highly optmisic headless chickens who are against risk taking and juice behind the charisma.

I think it's great that HN is celebrating nassim taleb's black swan theory with the black bar at the top

well I built a user authentication and it takes 5~6 seconds for a real simple operation. it happens randomly and no way to debug it.

the opacity of being able to peer at what's going on in the backend is a real problem with AWS Lambda. I think that this lack of insight is going to bite down the road. Even now, I'm getting 'service error' with NO EXPLANATION what happened.

this is just a PR disaster waiting to happen. who in their right minds would trust this small team to design a supersonic plane vs army of aerospace engineers at boeing and airbus?

I'd rather enjoy the comfort of flying with Boeing. Track record means a lot and they have the balls to say they are working on a prototype like they are building an Android app.

loool, the article highlighting arrogance of SV is real.

tldr: no way I'm getting on this plane and neither should you, it looks dangerous as fuck.

please provide sources and references to back up your claims.

you add nothing to the discussion on whether you are using node.js in enterprise or not. feel free to nit pick further by adding nothing to the discussion.

reply to the other guys comment below:

what's a BRE?

true but a bulk majority of businesses (fortune 10,000) are built on some type of Java. I just don't see them uprooting their investments.

It's always easier to think of tearing things down then building on top of existing,stable and mature systems like JVM. So much of the worlds devices and critical applications depend on JVM. I just don't see it changing in the manner poeple on HN will have you believe. One unicorn at a time guys...

thanks I think that is a more realistic real world scenario, some people on HN thinks they can change the enterprise world but it's super hard to do it with javascript imho and evident by that it's not being used in wide deployment....

Java is still king in the enterprise world.

> In November 2014 AWS Lambda was released and it was nothing short than a revolution.

still not good enough to be reliable in production, more expensive than running on micro instance or digitalocean.

Lambda needs a serious makeover soon or it risks developer abandonment. It's great to lock yourself in with a cloud provider. That's the only serious benefit you get. You still need to figure out how to scale properly, getting on AWS helps but it's not a plug and play scalable thing.

I've largely abandoned development on Lambda because you have to upload your code every time which is annoying. Not only that, they randomly take 5~10 seconds to respond. Also unhelpful are service error messages with no explanation or help from discussion boards. I was told to purchase their support license.

So it seems like AWS is locking in developers and companies with a non user friendly documentation and arcane hidden pitfalls then leaving them no choice but to purchase support since the cost is cheap (pay to play right?) until you add up the effort of integrating with AWS and the cost of lock-in....

AWS lambda is great for prototyping but it doesn't have the tools or a proper development guideline to utilize it. There doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm from AWS either, and if they pull the plug, well hope you didn't build any mission critical apps on lambda backends because you are going to have some considerable downtime.

was thinking about this just now. how easy it is to influence people over the internet through mediums like reddit, HN, etc. as soon as something gains enough upvotes, it becomes the truth.

wow that escalated.

microservice is a horrible horrible idea to uproot your existing architecture or build on top of.

> the deal". Mr Wagner, who claims to have a stellar record as a serial entrepreneur, was still telling everyone who would listen that his was a company that would be bigger than Google or Facebook one day. As recently as last October, he told Evan Davis on Radio 4's Bottom Line that the business had been valued at $2.7bn by its backers Wellington. Evan suggested that was a meaningless figure because Powa hadn't made any money yet. "We're a growth tech business," Mr Wagner replied, maintaining it was other people who had set that value.

holy crap this reads just like the interview with Pets.com in a 1999 edition of some PC magazine