Parler’s New Serverless Architecture

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6 points·velmu··7 comments

> (Full credit to Alice Goldfuss for the absolutely incredible title.)

As far as I see the article doesn't describe Parler's architecture old or new, or has any knowledge what Parler will do in the future.

Update: 19h ago the title was submitted as "Parler's Serverless Architecture: What It Would Take to Relaunch". Now it seems like the title was changed to attract clicks.

> or has any knowledge what Parler will do in the future.

We don't have to know that to analyse options they have. Which are pretty much: dodgy hosting which doesn't care what you do (and building part of infrastructure yourself); trying to self host and risk getting banned from colo; (not mentioned in the article) full tor migration and hiding what you host from the provider.

> to be frank, I’d be extremely cautious to work with anyone who raised such a concern as a serious consideration in the first place.

He seems to say that vendor lock-in isn't worth having concerns about. Did I understand this correctly?

This appears to be a consulting group's website selling AWS cost reduction strategies and AWS analysis; they have a vested interest in saying that.

I clicked on the link expecting some sort of content on migration, but it's basically saying 'stick with the cloud unless you're a bad company'

Yes I think you're right. Very dishonest marketing.

The concern he references there is in the previous paragraph: “every cloud provider decided we were too objectionable to host”.

In other words, if "what if everyone refuses to deal with us on a mix of moral and legal grounds" is a realistic risk for your company, maybe you don't want to be there.

Flagged for false/clickbait headline. This essentially has nothing to do with Parler.

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