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Unless and until there is a standard for function-as-a-service so you can move your functions between services at a moment's notice, you're very much locked in;
by Joeri 10y ago
Unless and until there is a standard for function-as-a-service so you can move your functions between services at a moment's notice, you're very much locked in; and locked in without any guarantees of quality of service.
- ewindisch 10y agoI am involved daily in precisely an effort to do just this. The differences between the big 3-4 providers is relatively marginal (call arguments and versions of interpreters such as NodeJS). Take it as a plug if you must, but being able to handle the former is one of the goals of https://github.com/iopipe/iopipe https://github.com/iopipe/iopipe. The version of language runtimes is where the most lock-in will occur, and really, that's kinda marginal, too. Language runtimes should be as stable and standard as, say, the Linux kernel's userland interface. If language runtimes can't deal with this, then they'll fail.