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This is a guest post by Marcel Panse and Sander Nagtegaal from Teletext.io.
In our early Peecho days, we wrote an article explaining how to build a really scalable architecture for next to nothing, using Amazon Web Services. Auto-scaling, merciless decoupling and even automated bidding on unused server capacity were the tricks we used back then to operate on a shoestring. Now, it is time to take it one step further.
We would like to introduce Teletext.io, also known as the serverless start-up - again, entirely built around AWS, but leveraging only the Amazon API Gateway, Lambda functions, DynamoDb, S3 and Cloudfront.
The Virtues of Constraint
We like rules. At our previous start-up Peecho, product owners had to do fifty push-ups as payment for each user story that they wanted to add to an ongoing sprint. Now, at our current company myTomorrows, our developer dance-offs are legendary: during the daily stand-ups, you are only allowed to speak while dancing - leading to the most efficient meetings ever.
This way of thinking goes all the way into our product development. It may seem counter-intuitive at first, but constraints fuel creativity. For example, all our logo design is done with technical diagramming tool Omnigraffle, so there is no way we could use hideous lens flares and such. Anyway - recently, we launched yet another initiative called Teletext.io. So, we needed a new restriction.
At Teletext.io, we are not allowed to use servers. Not even one.
It was a good choice. We will explain why.
Why Servers are Bad
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