Ask HN: Anyone Know of Serverless Enterprise Software Applications?

3 points by parsley27 4 years ago | 4 comments

I'm working on a list of serverless enterprise applications (whether open source, open core, or just old-fashioned pay-us-now enterprise), and to be honest, I only know of two so far:

- https://github.com/webiny/webiny-js

- https://github.com/formkiq/formkiq-core (the project I work on)

Does anyone know of any more? What I'm looking for is an enterprise software solution (CMS, DMS, CRM, ERP, etc.) that customers would deploy and host in their cloud account.

I feel like this is the future of software, but maybe that future is still a ways off.

Thanks!

LewisVerstappen 4 years ago |

Why do you think this is the future of software?

Wouldn't it be easier to have the provider manage the software/infra rather than having to do it yourself?

(I don't think you're wrong or anything. Just curious as to why you feel that way.)

Also, another example would be Ghost -> https://ghost.org/

parsley27 4 years ago | |

The idea is that an organization can have full control over their applications while gaining scaling capabilities compared to resources that run on server instances.

This helps with security/compliance, customization, cost management, etc. For smaller orgs, some of this software could be run at incredibly low costs of a few dollars a month or even within cloud free tiers.

In the case of Ghost, while it can be hosted on cloud providers like AWS, its default/recommended stack isn't serverless as it uses a server instance. However, you can use something like https://github.com/jeshan/serverless-ghost to make it mostly serverless.

Thanks!

s1k3s 4 years ago |

You're looking for "serverless" apps and yet both your examples run on servers. Or maybe I don't understand what serverless means. It seems to me like you're looking for this list: https://www.opensourcealternative.to/

parsley27 4 years ago | |

I meant serverless in the context of not having defined server instances, allowing the applications to be run within resources allocated on demand by the cloud provider. It can be a difficult thing to search for, to be honest.