rx is a lightweight CLI and runtime that lets you deploy any function instantly as you save it in your editor. It’s fast, simple, and takes care of setting up all your cloud infrastructure.
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We've solved cloud.
Yes. You read that right.
Well, conceptually. More accurately, we're solving cloud right now. That's why you should join the rx beta and reserve your username today.
I'll spare you the cloud history lesson, but basically we (as an industry) went from mainframes deployed on-premises to whatever the heck you'd call what we have today:
Mainframes -> Servers -> Serverless -> to a mix of everything, deployed all over the place — on-premises, hosted, and multicloud.
Most people would say: Yeah, but it's still all servers, baby. And they would be right. But that's not my point here.
These all came with their own abstractions and ever-changing cloud paradigms and deployment patterns. It's like we have to completely change the way we write and ship applications every 2 freaking minutes.
You know which abstraction has remained constant during that time? The function.
Ah, the function. The simplest callable unit of code.
The idea of a callable unit was initially conceived by John Mauchly and Kathleen Antonelli during their work ... January 1947 ... Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill are generally credited with the formal invention of this concept, which they termed a closed sub-routine ... Alan Turing had discussed subroutines in a paper ... going so far as to invent the concept of a return address stack.
That's all for the free Wikipedia history lesson. Continue reading on Wikipedia.
To put it simply, we are short custom cloud abstractions, and long fundamental computing primitives, like the function.
Functions are all you need.™
rx removes a whole suite of tools from your software supply chain.
I haven't told you much about how we've "solved cloud" yet. I'll be revealing more about these concepts in the next post, coming to your browser soon (Monday April 29 2024).
If you enjoyed this post, consider signing up for the rx beta here:
We're giving away free hosted Raspberry Pis for the first ~X users that sign up for the rx beta.
rx is a lightweight CLI and runtime that lets you deploy any function instantly as you save it in your editor. It's fast, simple, and takes care of setting up all your cloud infrastructure.
Currently I personally host ~20 or so web and scheduled applications on a Raspberry Pi. It just runs in a closet, has a fan on it to keep it cool, and is super fast. I basically never check on it. It is locked down for security, has scripts to automatically run services on restart, and to keep stuff updated.
Way better than dealing with EC2 or Lambda. Lets me ship stuff fast, THEN I can think about scaling later and paying for expensive cloud services and databases (after ACTUALLY having users).
I want more people to experience this! You don't need cloud and microservices and Kubernetes (come on) for everything.
Sign up for the beta here:
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✨ It'll be hosted in our data center in the USA.
✨ It will have 4GB RAM, 20+GB SSD, super fast internet, and lots of bandwidth.
Like getting a Digital Ocean Droplet or an EC2. Except we're hosting it for you for free and you can deploy as many applications as you want to it.
