“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 redisman on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:05AM (#19083309)

As long as you write your own wrappers to the SDKs changing cloud providers is definitely doable. We started full AWS stack with Lambda but have now been slowly refactoring our way into more cloud-provider agnostic direction. It's definitely not an existential threat level lock-in. Serverless technology is only starting out still and I'm pretty sure 5 years from now Lambda won't be the go-to platform anyway. Plus honestly we've learned so much from the first big project on Lambda that writing the next one with all of that in mind will be pretty great (and agnostic).

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by staticassertion on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:52AM (#19083466)

I don't believe that writing wrappers is particularly important, though I think that anyone who uses SQS is likely to build an abstraction over it at some point (as with all lower level communication protocols, at some point you build a "client library" that's more specific).

As I said, at least in the cases of your database and your storage, being cloud-agnostic is trivial. Managed postgres is easy to migrate from, S3 shouldn't be hard to migrate from either.

Certainly lambda doesn't impact this too much.

> Serverless technology is only starting out still and I'm pretty sure 5 years from now Lambda won't be the go-to platform anyway. Plus honestly we've learned so much from the first big project on Lambda that writing the next one with all of that in mind will be pretty great (and agnostic).

I realize it isn't entirely on-topic, but could you elaborate? I'm curious to hear more about your opinion on this, I'm not sure what the future of Serverless is.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:28AM (#19083396)

And that goes back to developers using the repository pattern because one day the CTO might decide that they want to get rid of their 6-7 figure Oracle installation and migrate to Postgres. There is a lot more to migrating infrastructure at scale than writing a few facades.

Heck, consultants get paid lots of money just to do a lift and shift and migrate a bunch of VMWare images from on prem to AWS.

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