“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 sonnyblarney on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:46PM (#19082687)

" don’t need Kubernetes nor serverless."

Actually 'serverless' is where small shops might want to start.

A single Lambda can encompass a whole variety of functions, and if you're using a datastore that scales as well, you don't need to worry about much. Once it's set up, it should be very easy to monitor and change.

I'd rather a simple Lambda than managing a couple of EC2's with failover scenarios and the front end networking pieces for that.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by nerdbeere on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:05AM (#19084902)

Also small scale is where lambda really shines in terms of costs. If you have some api endpoint that gets a hit 100 times per hour and does some execution then this is actually way cheaper then even the cheapest ec2 instance in a production setup with ELB.

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