On: Now 2.0

[alexashka]

For someone who's not in the loop, can someone give a brief explanation of what pain point this solves?

The space of 'easy deployment' and 'scale' seems incredibly crowded, from reading the headlines - what makes this different/better?

[Rauchg → alexashka]

As far as we are aware, no one until today had solved the problem of compiling to serverless functions.

If you look at the solutions out there, they all involve you dealing with low-level APIs or config that have little to do with how you write most apps and frameworks in mainstream programming languages.

[keithwhor → alexashka]

Guillermo and his team are focused on developer experience first and foremost; the zero -> “hello world” in any language they support is ridiculously quick and painless.

[sooheon → keithwhor]

If this is hosting front-end files for me, and is "serverless", how do I hook up my db, or deal with the filesystem, etc.? Or is this only for static sites?

[crooked-v → sooheon]

You put database access, S3 access, etc in your lambda functions, using env vars configured in the Now account settings.