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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by nicbou on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @05:41AM (#24763861)
You can also predict the costs, and shop around if your provider gets greedy. If Amazon changes its pricing structure, what are you supposed to do?
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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by VHRanger on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @07:40AM (#24764539)
If you built everything in proprietary infrastructure, porting is a lot more work.

Using lambdas tie you to AWS because as soon as you use a few step functions, or you have a few lambdas interacting, changing to Azure or GCP becomes a huge pile of dev work and QA.

Having everything "just run" on linux instances let you be perfectly portable and now you can actually shop around.

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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by ajsnigrutin on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @07:31AM (#24764486)
It's a lot easier to change providers, if your service is an (eg.) docker image(s), than to move something relying on amazons api.
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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by xorcist on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:12AM (#24765697)
It's even easier if your application is just (an equivalent of) a binary, or a tarball.
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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by ForHackernews on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:15AM (#24765734)
Unless it relies on any system libraries, in which case you're in dependency hell when you upgrade or change the OS.
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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by joana035 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:56AM (#24766165)
This is a solved problem, and dependency hell happen when not choosing dependencies wisely when creating programs.
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