Re:Ask HN: Is Serverless Overkill?
by PaulHoule on Thursday July 18, 2024 @04:08PM
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I've built some very small and simple systems in AWS Lambda such as email newsletter scripts. With a system like that I can get close to 100% reliability, never worry about the server crashing or overloading. My RSS reader answers webhooks with Lambda -- some of these systems have been cruising for years without maintenance.
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Ditto. I have some not-small systems based on s3, lambda, SNS and SQS that have been running for years without issue - just quietly, and inexpensively doing their jobs.
New stuff I’m building is putting StepFunctions in rather than Lambda if at all possible, and DDB alongside S3 for indexing. I expect these to be nearly maintenance free (no runtime updates, no package updates, TTLs to expire data).