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The Evolution of The New York Times Tech Stack
- mikevm 8y agoHis definition of "serverless" seems to be broader than FaaS [1]: > YB: So you're not saying that by 2019, everything should be on cloud functions? > NR: I think almost nothing will be on cloud functions. I think cloud functions are a useful tool, but by no means a way to build meaningful applications. > NR: I'm happy to be persuaded otherwise by someone, but I just don't see that as being a good way to build apps. At least unless there is lots of evolution and lots of tooling, and basically came to look like something quite different. > NR: I would say, my advice, which everyone is free to ignore, is App Engine. I'd say look at App Engine first. > YB: App Engine? > NR: I'm not keen on function as a service. I think that's actually, I've quoted Deepak Singh, who's the product manager for the Elastic Container Service at AWS, where he said something like, "Lambda or cloud functions, in general, were like Perl." Like what Perl was back in the day. It's a great way to solve a particular problem, or glue stuff together. But again, not the way to build big apps. [1] https://stackshare.io/posts/evolution-of-new-york-times-tech-stack#serverless-future https://stackshare.io/posts/evolution-of-new-york-times-tech...