SST

[oscartbeaumont]

Another attempt at using SST in Mattrax.

[oscartbeaumont]

So we have to make a compromise and they are:

SST + Cloudfront

• Lack of permanent preview deployments (Eg. can't just preview the site 10 commits back)
• Super slow deployments for PR's (3-5 minutes)
• Non-atomic deployments (I am fairly certain SST doesn't handle this)

SST + Cloudflare Pages

The Cloudflare public API does not have a way to create a deployment. Technically you can pass some undocumented params to one of the endpoints but they are not exposed by Terraform and obviously not subject to continue working.

The API also requires a special auth token, and the API endpoint to get the token doesn't seem to work properly using authorised using an API key so...

SST + Cloudflare Workers

• Lack of permanent preview deployments (Eg. can't just preview the site 10 commits back)

I assume I could figure out atomic deployments but this would all need to be manual which would add significant complexity to getting this working.

SST + Deno Deploy

• Less POP's meaning worse performance. It would be around the same as Vercel but worse than Mattrax's current setup.

I haven't check if this can even work with SST

Cloudflare Pages Git Integration

No way to coordinate the deployment to ensure dependencies are ready before the site comes online.

Wrangler CLI in GitHub Actions

Complicated CI workflow

[oscartbeaumont]

SST kinda sucks for the DX I want and I genuinely can't tell how much is on them and how much is on Cloudflare/AWS.

Doing preview deployments when your glueing together infrastructure across providers is basically a no-go and the hyper-scaler don't offer the complete set of services I would want for building an application so you end up needing multi-cloud stuff full-stop (Eg. Cloudflare doesn't do email and AWS Cloudfront doesn't do preview deploys at all).