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Re:Now dev – Serverless on localhost by peterwwillis on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @06:28PM (#19792643)
It would also be really simple to sftp a single application to a /cgi-bin/ directory on a shared web host. You don't need to know anything except STDIN and STDOUT, and none of that CI/CD or VCS boilerplate to worry about. Instant web applications. It'd probably be much simpler than using Lambda.

I don't have anything against FaaS as a concept, but it almost always leads to crappy operation. The simplest examples of it working are crowded out by the attempts that ended up redesigned as normal applications.

Re:Now dev – Serverless on localhost by justasitsounds on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:47PM (#19794097)
Genuinely interested to hear/read these use cases. I'm using a serverless stack at the moment (AWS Api GW + Lambda), and after the initial headaches of wrestling with Cloudformation it's been relatively simple and performant