Personally I suspect that the chaotic tooling will waste more dev time than what the sysadmin time will cost you. So that it will be a net loss even before you consider lock-in and fees.
While a good argument in favor of the vendor locked-in serverless services can be made at the start of a project, it looks like a net loss during any other phase of the project.
It comes down to if you want to have generic and reusable sysadmins vs. cloud serverless specialists.
Re:Serverless SQLite
by sojournerc on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:36AM
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Heroku fits the bill for me. Very easy to manage and scale, still cheaper than an SRE or sysadmin.
What I'm curious is if (1) serverless is cheaper than hiring competent sysadmins who can maintain the infrastructure instead and (2) are these savings worth being locked into a chaotic architecture and boring proprietary tooling that is forced on you for the profit of the Google, Microsoft, and Amazon monopolies?
I've recently entered the job market and personally find no joy in working in serverless environments because of the latter.