Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way
by sudhirj on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:08PM
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For those talking about this being a 'serverless' problem or not, think they point is that it's a lot easier to shoot yourself in the foot. Great power + responsibility, etc. On regular servers (outside of unbounded autoscaling) mistakes cost a flat rate.
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Not necessarily.
With a regular server you could go viral, your server dies, so you lose also without a bound in lost business/good will/whatever.
Also need to take into account the time/effort spent on making the regular server scale, albeit this is also a relatively flat rate.