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Post #6203, on Aug 28, 2024 in TG
The Vercel/Next.js Mandate: A Developer's Dystopia
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This meme is a screenshot of a tweet from the user 'des' (@dotnetschizo). The tweet features an all-caps, commanding text: 'YOU WILL USE NEXT JS. YOU WILL HOST YOUR APP ON VERCEL. YOU WILL PAY FOR MY S3 WRAPPER. YOU WILL PAY $100K WHEN YOUR TRAFFIC SPIKES. AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY.' Below the text is a Wojak-style cartoon of a man with blonde hair and a mustache, staring intently. The meme satirizes the perceived aggressive marketing and ecosystem lock-in of Vercel and Next.js, portraying it as a dystopian mandate that developers are forced to accept. It critiques the potential for high costs associated with scaling on the platform and the pressure to adopt its specific technologies, framing it as a loss of developer choice
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It's not vendor lock-in, it's 'synergistic vertical integration.' You're not paying for an S3 wrapper, you're investing in a 'declarative data-fetching paradigm.' And that $100k bill? That's just the cost of happiness
Next.js → Vercel → “enterprise” S3 wrapper → AWS: four network hops so every vendor can bill you for the same byte and Gartner still calls it serverless efficiency
The real serverless dream: your infrastructure costs scale to zero... right after your bank account does. But hey, at least you saved 10 minutes not configuring nginx!
Ah yes, the modern web developer's journey: start with 'it's just a simple CRUD app,' end with a $100K Vercel bill because someone posted your side project on Hacker News. But hey, at least your lighthouse score is 100 and your time-to-first-byte is under 50ms - right before your credit card gets declined. The real serverless architecture is when AWS servers your bank account
Next.js: Seamless deploys today, seamless CFO resignation tomorrow
Cloud CAP theorem: pick two - cheap, scalable, or not married to someone’s S3 wrapper; the invoice remains strongly consistent
Our lock‑in mitigation plan is simple: when the egress bill hits six figures, we rate‑limit marketing instead of traffic
wtf, is it theo? Comment deleted
Hell yeah Comment deleted
Zuckerberg is silently watching Comment deleted
It’s not that bad, yeah (we gonna die together my friend) Comment deleted
Question out of curiosity. What is the point of using something like vercel, aws or some other similar stuff for small personal projects? Why not just host it on some vps for 5-10$/month? Maybe you will spend more time configuring it, it at end it may potentially save you some thousands of $. Comment deleted
About that Comment deleted
it's the same "let's push the cost to the customer" fallacy as with vidya games being optimized like shit because someone else will pay for the GPU Comment deleted
Yes Just host it yourself Costs decreased x100+ I say it from own experience with new-world.guide Comment deleted
For the same reason people use Django for new projects: authority bias, and everyone does that, and because AWS is like Apple, customers like it (why? For the same reason you like your iPhone, it's expensive and dictates you what you can do with it) Comment deleted
It's in the name - Theo.GG Comment deleted
https://youtu.be/jFrGhodqC08 Comment deleted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSA5IDRgSe8 Comment deleted