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The author address this question in the announcement blog post (under "PS: Hating on “serverless”?"): https://medium.com/@hichaelmart/lambci-4c3e29d6599b#.3nieq

The author address this question in the announcement blog post (under "PS: Hating on “serverless”?"): https://medium.com/@hichaelmart/lambci-4c3e29d6599b#.3nieqgg33 https://medium.com/@hichaelmart/lambci-4c3e29d6599b#.3nieqgg...

toomuchtodo 10y ago
"Well. Look. I’m not going to defend it to the death, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near as bad as some suggest. It’s a term people are using to describe architectures in which you don’t deal with anything resembling a server, or an instance, or similar." How you can tell OP has very little experience with AWS services being broken for hours before the little "i" gets added to the service on their status board.
- AlexCoventry 10y ago
  > AWS services being broken for hours before the little "i" Are these failures being systematically tracked and documented somewhere?
  - toomuchtodo 10y ago
    AWS Status Board I refer to: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/ Down detector seems to show when they've had historical issues: http://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services http://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services Other HN comments about AWS' Status Board not being "faithful": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9809315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9809315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839846 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839846 "It will take a direct hit with nuclear weapon on the datacenter for Amazon to change icon to red on service status page." "Still down 5 hours later. ELB won't register instances. Ugh" https://www.google.com/search?q=aws+status+hackernews https://www.google.com/search?q=aws+status+hackernews "Serverless" is not magic. Its only hiding the pain until its excruciating (service down, you wait until someone else fixes it).
    - discodave 10y ago
      "It will take a direct hit with nuclear weapon on the datacenter for Amazon to change icon to red on service status page." Should read: "It will take a direct hit with multiple nuclear weapons on all the data centers in an AWS region for Amazon to change icon to red on service status page." Not sure if I'm pointing out how good Amazons AZ/region model is or how bad they are at updating the status page. :)

toomuchtodo 10y ago

"Well. Look. I’m not going to defend it to the death, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near as bad as some suggest. It’s a term people are using to describe architectures in which you don’t deal with anything resembling a server, or an instance, or similar." How you can tell OP has very little experience with AWS services being broken for hours before the little "i" gets added to the service on their status board.

AlexCoventry 10y ago
> AWS services being broken for hours before the little "i" Are these failures being systematically tracked and documented somewhere?
- toomuchtodo 10y ago
  AWS Status Board I refer to: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/ Down detector seems to show when they've had historical issues: http://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services http://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services Other HN comments about AWS' Status Board not being "faithful": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9809315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9809315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839846 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839846 "It will take a direct hit with nuclear weapon on the datacenter for Amazon to change icon to red on service status page." "Still down 5 hours later. ELB won't register instances. Ugh" https://www.google.com/search?q=aws+status+hackernews https://www.google.com/search?q=aws+status+hackernews "Serverless" is not magic. Its only hiding the pain until its excruciating (service down, you wait until someone else fixes it).
  - discodave 10y ago
    "It will take a direct hit with nuclear weapon on the datacenter for Amazon to change icon to red on service status page." Should read: "It will take a direct hit with multiple nuclear weapons on all the data centers in an AWS region for Amazon to change icon to red on service status page." Not sure if I'm pointing out how good Amazons AZ/region model is or how bad they are at updating the status page. :)