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Re:Serverless: slower and more expensive by nickjj on Monday September 23, 2019 @07:41AM (#21047897)
Agreed.

~2 years ago I seriously looked into Serverless and very quickly discarded it after seeing a large production deployment of it. I didn't have access to the billing info but the site loaded much slower than a regular site and developer productivity was quite low.

I'm going to stick with good old servers for now. If anyone is curious, a few years ago I did a write up on "Should your next project be built as a Serverless app?" which compares deployment styles in a bit more detail: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/should-your-next-project-be-b...

Re:Serverless: slower and more expensive by herostratus101 on Monday September 23, 2019 @11:06AM (#21049585)
Hey nickjj, you may want to update your blog post to reflect that the Lambda timeout is now 15m, not 5m.
Re:Serverless: slower and more expensive by nickjj on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:07PM (#21050925)
Hi, thanks for the heads up. I just updated it.