The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled

Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by molf on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:18AM (#24763415)

> Serverless won't be profitable because the people who need it don't make money.

You seem to implying only applications with huge numbers of users can be profitable. This statement ignores a tremendous amount of (typically B2B) applications that provide enormous value for their users but don't see a lot of traffic.

I have worked on applications that are at the core of profitable businesses yet they can go days, in some cases weeks without any usage. Serverless architecture will be a real benefit there once it matures.

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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by robertlagrant on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @02:21AM (#24773693)

I don't think that's necessarily true. Google Cloud functions give you 2 million invocations free a month - that's almost 1 per second. You can keep adding another 2 million for $0.40 at a time. It's not terrible.

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