Serverless: Cold Start War

Re:Serverless: Cold Start War by a_imho on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:19AM (#17957753)

So, what is the killer app of faas? To my layman understanding the selling point is easy scale-ability, but it seems to be inherently at odds with serverless being the most expensive computing model?

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Re:Serverless: Cold Start War by icebraining on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:22AM (#17960533)

Not necessarily; what matters is how peak-y the demand is. For example, my country's teachers portal gets orders of magnitude more requests during a couple of weeks of the year than the average (at the start of the school year). Going serverless for those processes might make sense.

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Re:Serverless: Cold Start War by TrueTeller on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:24AM (#17957778)

IMO, every greenfield app that can benefit from "just focus on your business code" model.

P.S. I'm the author of OP, thanks for reading!

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Re:Serverless: Cold Start War by jacques_chester on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:53AM (#17958839)

This is an argument for buildpacks, isn't it?

Disclosure: I am currently working on buildpacks again.

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