Very interesting. As you are in the google infra, how is performance impacted with an S3 and RDS in us-east AWS?
jfrolich
Crowdhailer
Creator of Raxx
Thanks, had a quick look at your docker setup. unfortunately a long time since I looked at python so will have to look again when I have more time.
I am not keen to run kuberneties locally. However with a library like peerage doing the clustering with a switch for development vs production environments we might get something very close.
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jesse
Gigalixir runs in Google’s us-central1 region which is in Iowa. Connecting to S3 or RDS in Amazon’s us-east-1 would increase latency for sure, but I haven’t measured it myself.
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jesse
Following up here, gigalixir.com now has a free tier, no credit card required. For anyone who had questions about postgres, gigalixir now offers Postgresql-as-a-service.
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jesse
First of all, thanks to everyone who helped with the beta test earlier this year.
Gigalixir, a Platform-as-a-Service for Elixir, now has a free tier so you can try it without a credit card. We also added Postgresql-as-a-service, and is no longer invitation-only.
If you’re interested, we highly recommend following the quick start to get started.
As always, feel free to contact me directly for help. You can find me in the Slack channel as @jes.
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OvermindDL1
dsslimshaddy
jesse
@dsslimshaddy Gigalixir works fine with MySQL, but the Gigalixir database-as-a-service doesn’t offer MySQL yet. If you provision one yourself in Google Cloud SQL us-central1 it’ll be on the same low-latency network.
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sztosz
I just skimmed the topic, but I think the analogy is a bit not accurate. It’s not the difference between starbucsk and growing, roasting and grinding coffe.
It’s rather the difference between reading a manual thoroughly and learn to do your homework in minutes (bare metal) or don’t read and pay a stranger to do your homework every time. The difference is that once you learn how to do those dev-ops you will know how to do it and won’t be left out cold ever, and even if it’s not something you will ever use in production environment it will definitely help you in your dev environment (and you might not even be aware why you know how to do some things on your dev machine 
). It’s like with this proverb: Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
And I’m not saying that services like Gigalixir are not needed or bad or whatever, I used some of similar for some projects and was as satisfied as one can get with them. What I mean is that there are areas of IT, that every developer should know, at least basics, even if he does not foresee himself ever using it. Simple scenario: You upgrade PostgreSql and your data is gone, or server does not start… what you do? spend few minutes to migrate data? Or take precious times of your colleagues because you can’t into dev-ops, because you use PasS in production?
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hassan
It’s like with this proverb: Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
Show him where the fish market is and he can accomplish something
meaningful in his day without wasting most of it trying to catch dinner…
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