“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by jniedrauer on Monday February 04, 2019 @05:58PM (#19081530)

I use lambda to perform simple, stateless units of work like autoscaling event post-hooks, chat bots, routine scheduled tasks, etc. They're mostly cloud-agnostic and I could move them to a server if I had to.

I don't think anyone can really build a full scale application using serverless. It's just not performant or predictable enough. I've seen people try, and it always ended in frustration. A properly configured docker scheduler is better for this type of work anyway.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by sanxchit on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:34PM (#19082405)

You can definitely build a fully functional web app using just serverless. For an example, take a look at https://acloud.guru . Where I work, we almost exclusively use serverless, and I have found it to be incredibly reliable, and way more hands-off than a docker deployment.

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