The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled

Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by spyspy on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:32PM (#24761677)

My joke around the office is some people optimize for latency, some for throughput, some for memory usage. I, however, optimize for sleep.

My entire goal is for my services to never wake me up. And if they do it had better because I clearly messed up and am the sole human alive able to fix it.

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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by ethanwillis on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:35PM (#24762007)

I optimize for escape hatches. Because if everything is on fire I want the ability to be able to bail(fix it).

There's no point in waking up when everything is blowing up if you don't have the access to fix the underlying issue. AWS doesn't actually guarantee 99.9% uptime. What they guarantee is they'll give you some company currency[1] if they can't meet or exceed 99.9% uptime.

So the next time the ship is on fire, don't worry, stay asleep and your Amazon account manager will be by shortly with a thimble of water to throw on you :)

[1] - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/aws-syste...

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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by pm90 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:01AM (#24762707)

> I, however, optimize for sleep.

Bravo.

Having been on call for some truly monstrous amount of things and seen things break in all kinds of ways... I can't agree more with this principle.

While the cloud isn't cheap, if your org can afford it, there is no question about it: go with managed services. Focus on building things, leave the OPS to AWS/GCP/Azure.

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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by erikerikson on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @12:32AM (#24762296)

We optimize for good engineers

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