Re:Serverless: slower and more expensive
by mywittyname on Monday September 23, 2019 @10:21AM
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> Lambda can often actually add to development time because it takes more work to test locally and remote testing adds significant time to the write/test cycle.
This has not been my experience at all. Maybe because I have a lot of experience with Lambda, but I find them to be a very fast way to get code written and running.
Granted, Lambda is a great tool for a specific category of task. Namely, when you need to programmatically respond to some event which was triggered by another AWS service and can do so in under 5 minutes. But it's poorly suited for tasks outside of that domain. In that sense, it's like Bash: you don't want to do everything with it, but there are situations where it's the best tool.
This has not been my experience at all. Maybe because I have a lot of experience with Lambda, but I find them to be a very fast way to get code written and running.
Granted, Lambda is a great tool for a specific category of task. Namely, when you need to programmatically respond to some event which was triggered by another AWS service and can do so in under 5 minutes. But it's poorly suited for tasks outside of that domain. In that sense, it's like Bash: you don't want to do everything with it, but there are situations where it's the best tool.