Re:Traits of Serverless Architecture
by fuball63 on Monday August 19, 2019 @08:44AM
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Opsless is pretty good. Function as a service (FaaS) is what my preference is. It seems every time something about serverless comes up on the forum, there's the inevitable "but there are servers" comment.
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Re:Traits of Serverless Architecture
by ilikehurdles on Monday August 19, 2019 @09:44AM
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I don't like FaaS much more because of the ambiguity of the word "function". In most servers I've worked on, you start by definition the single function that determines where to route the request. What it really is, is managed services, but that has its conflicting definitions.
To add to the confusion, in Azure a Function App (the deployable thing) an contain multiple Functions (the invocable things).
Microservice as a service is clearest to me.
Is it really event function as a service? It's not like you can just remote a function to Lambda at least (unless there's some framework that does that on top). It's really just a managed container with a fixed entry point and built-in instrumentation.
Re:Traits of Serverless Architecture
by goatinaboat on Monday August 19, 2019 @09:16AM
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In the FaaS (also my preferred term) world the “ops” responsibilities include cost management. Fargate, Lambda etc can get very expensive very quickly if you don’t have a guy on top of this.