“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 wnevets on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:30PM (#19082043)

aws lambda is probably has the least vendor lock in than any of their offerings.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by np_tedious on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:35PM (#19082082)

If it's triggered by api gateway, then maybe. But with S3 or kinesis or especially dynamo there's a good bit of lock in.

What do you consider the lock in when using RDS? S3? EC2?

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:15PM (#19082327)

It’s easy enough to separate your event sources from your event destinations. Anything that can trigger lambda can also trigger SNS message that can call an API endpoint.

If I did want to move from AWS that’s the first thing I would do. Put an API end point in front of my business logic, change the event from triggering lambda to an SNS message and move my API off of AWS. Then slowly migrate everything else.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by np_tedious on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:06AM (#19085349)

That's kind of a lot

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:47AM (#19085680)

All infrastructure migrations are “kind of a lot”.

People aren’t using the same frameworks and infrastructure they used 10 years ago.

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