Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
by heavyset_go on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:31PM
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I agree with your sentiments. I've found that OpenFaaS[1] has been nice to work with and you can deploy it wherever.
Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
by TheOtherHobbes on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:32PM
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AWS is shaping up to be Oracle 2.0.
That isn't a compliment.
Given an opportunity to milk existing, locked-in customers in lieu of investing in R&D and new products, few leadership teams can resist.
Time will tell.
Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
by mushbino on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:26PM
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I'm predicting AWS will wait for a competitor to do the R&D work, see if it's successful, and then look for a way to beat them at their own game.
Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
by rektide on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:28PM
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aws's whole pitch has been cutting out server huggers & engineers, relying on aws. since day 1. often to wonderful effect. with far far better software programmability than our old crufty ways.
but lambda gets to the point where there is no local parity, where it's detached, is no longer an easier managed (remotely operated) parallel to what we know & do, but is a system entirely into itself, playing by different rules. one must trust the cloud-native experience it brings entirely, versus the historical past where the cloud offered native local parallels.
Sure, you can write a bunch of tools to work around the crufty, terrible development environment's shortcomings. But ultimately, you are just locking yourself further & further & further in to the hostile, hard to work with environment, bending yourself into the bizarre abnormal geometry the serverless environment has demanded of you.
To me, as a developer who values being able to understand & comprehend & try, I would prefer staying far far far away from any serverless environment that is vendor locked. I would be willing & interested to try serverless environments that give me, the developer, the traditional great & vast powers of running as root locally that I expect. Short of a local dev environment, one meets both vendor lock in, & faces ongoing difficulties trying to understand what is happening, with what performance profiles/costs. I'd rather not invest my creativity & effort in trying to eek more & more signals out of the vendor's black box. Especially if trouble is knocking, then I would very much like to be able to fall back on the amazing toolkits I know & love.