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0 pointsbob10293y ago0 comments

.NET 7 & SQLite.

Because I wouldn't need anything else.

Also, it could potentially be my final stack depending on the size of my business & market. The current Kestrel web server implementation is extraordinarily fast (i.e. millions of requests per second fast). Vertical scaling isn't exactly a problem now that we have 2S servers with 256 cores (and beyond).

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pc863y ago· 7 in thread

Have you found any good managed places to deploy modern .NET apps other than Azure? My experience is you can either use Azure, in which it's fairly abstracted for you but overpriced, or you can use something like DO where it's more reasonably priced but you have to handle everything yourself.

kcartlidge3y ago

Just for clarity for others passing through this thread ...

Current .NET produces stand-alone cross-platform executables just like many other stacks.

Unless you're forced to do legacy stuff, there is no Framework any more, and no Windows or IIS needed. They build and deploy exactly like other ecosystem executables because that's exactly what they are. You can even generate a Linux server build from Windows and MacOS. And it also works fine with standard container stuff.

By default a .NET web app or API is a stand-alone server, with optional https built in, and you can either sit it behind a proxy like nginx or you can direct traffic straight at it. In summary, forget all the old stuff about frameworks, Windows, and IIS. If you're doing your own project and not working legacy stuff you don't need any of it.

mdasen3y ago

Fly.io works great. .NET will generate the Dockerfile for you already so it's pretty easy to set it up. Fly.io will even give you a hosted PostgreSQL.

DigitalOcean's App Platform should also handle .NET apps as easily as anything else.

.NET makes it easy to get your app all set for Docker and there's a lot of platforms that will take Docker containers or even build them from your repository.

I guess I'm wondering what managed services for other languages feel more managed/easy than Fly.io or DO's App Platform taking your repository, building it, and launching it.

bob1029OP3y ago

I think we need to be super precise when we use the word "managed". Today, we use EC2/Azure VMs to run a lot of .NET 6+ apps. I consider these to be managed resources. My involvement with those servers is an email from the hypervisor ~once a year politely requesting a reboot.

I don't think .NET has any specific implications regarding where the product is hosted. If you are referring to the Microsoft insight/Azure integration crap, we use 0% of that.

pc863y ago

That's basically what I mean. I just want to deploy the app and not have to worry about anything OS-related, including IIS config, SSL, etc.

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barbazoo3y ago

Looks like you can run containerized .NET apps via GCP Cloud Run

https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/fit-for-run

SIRHAMY3y ago

This is what I do.

* CloudRun - .NET in Docker * CloudSQL - Managed Postgres

JoeMayoBot3y ago

AWS has been aggressive in .NET support in the last couple of years: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/language/net/

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