Haha you're right. I love flock of birds analogy.. and thanks for the mention!
We've also been floating 'Software defined infrastructure', 'Software defined compute'. Sounds a bit like something out of a Gartner report though. It's really the idea of 'The developer doesn't think about infrastructure or writing server-logic. I only write business-logic, and I can run it anywhere.'
vs Lambda, we focused on the big pain-points:
1. Lock-in, lack of agnosticism. You can run StackHut wherever (and on-top of k8s, mesos soon). Lambda can't even be run on your local machine for dev.
2. Inability to do most of the stuff you do actually do on servers. With StackHut, you can define your stack completely, so if you want ubuntu with ghostscript and a bunch of weird binaries copied in.. go for it!
3. Built for RPC from the ground-up (dynamically mapping functions between languages so you can call your Python functions in JavaScript etc.)
We really are seeing infrastructure moving to a more open, agnostic world. AWS in 2015 is kind of the Windows 95 of infrastructure. Might be a bit of a stretch, but we see the cloud primitives of compute, storage, db/cache become almost like the CPU, hard-disk, memory. There will be an orchestration platform on-top of that (k8s, mesos, etc.), which is sort of like a hypervisor. And then on that there will be OS-like things (like us!)
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We've also been floating 'Software defined infrastructure', 'Software defined compute'. Sounds a bit like something out of a Gartner report though. It's really the idea of 'The developer doesn't think about infrastructure or writing server-logic. I only write business-logic, and I can run it anywhere.'
vs Lambda, we focused on the big pain-points: 1. Lock-in, lack of agnosticism. You can run StackHut wherever (and on-top of k8s, mesos soon). Lambda can't even be run on your local machine for dev. 2. Inability to do most of the stuff you do actually do on servers. With StackHut, you can define your stack completely, so if you want ubuntu with ghostscript and a bunch of weird binaries copied in.. go for it! 3. Built for RPC from the ground-up (dynamically mapping functions between languages so you can call your Python functions in JavaScript etc.)
We really are seeing infrastructure moving to a more open, agnostic world. AWS in 2015 is kind of the Windows 95 of infrastructure. Might be a bit of a stretch, but we see the cloud primitives of compute, storage, db/cache become almost like the CPU, hard-disk, memory. There will be an orchestration platform on-top of that (k8s, mesos, etc.), which is sort of like a hypervisor. And then on that there will be OS-like things (like us!)