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Anyone with experience of migrating a large system to "serverless" who can chime about the benefit/cost? Seems good fit for event handlers or operational tools.
by indogooner 9y ago
Anyone with experience of migrating a large system to "serverless" who can chime about the benefit/cost? Seems good fit for event handlers or operational tools. I feel two limitations related to "caching" and "overall cost" should deter any large scale system from moving.
- imglorp 9y agoOne obvious thing to keep in mind is the profit model. AWS at least prices lambda, api gateway, and rds so it's very cheap and attractive for projects with low resource needs. As soon as it gets popular though, they own your ass until you migrate off it. We looked at one application on it and it worked out to billions monthly for high traffic loads, vs much less if we hosted on their regular boxen ourselves. "operational tools" might be the right answer here - use it for something that will have bounded scale and you can predict the expense.