alt Hacker Newswas expecting a bit more substance but always interesting to read different approaches.
but I do wonder if BEAM is a bit of an overkill, even fly.io (known among developer threads to be very unreliable uptime) wouldn't be my first pick.
Cloudflare Durable Objects really is generous, not often can you get replicated database and realtime sync for such low barrier in cost and implementation.
I do wonder tho what Cloudflare's ultimate game is, as I'd imagine once they corner the market and practically everything is running off it, wouldn't be hard to say raise the $5/month to something higher.
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BEAM is rarely overkill. It’s fairly simple, once you grasp the concepts. It’s just from the outside people may think it’s rocket science.
> but I do wonder if BEAM is a bit of an overkill...
Why would it matter if something's overkill? If it's not much more work, and it runs on the systems you're targeting, it's better to start with something that's more reliable than you might strictly need than to start with something that you believe to be "proper kill", only to discover that you underestimated the amount of "kill" required. Retrofitting things like proper supervision and data/crash isolation can be a huge, huge pain in the ass.
> Cloudflare Durable Objects really is generous, not often can you get replicated database and realtime sync for such low barrier in cost and implementation.
BEAM gives it to you for free, and you don't rely on an Internet-scale monopoly to run it.