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>We expect serverless computing to become simpler to program securely than serverful computing, benefiting from the high level of programming abstraction and th
by coderintherye 8y ago
>We expect serverless computing to become simpler to program securely than serverful computing, benefiting from the high level of programming abstraction and the fine-grained isolation
of cloud functions
In my view, that's the really key bit. Securing systems is an endless task, even (or especially) if they are cloud hosted.
- redisman 8y agoRight now serverless is definitely not simpler than a monolith. It's "simple" if you squint but any real workloads have you dealing with high concurrency for almost all tasks that a single monolith could handle with a single instance.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoYou are right and I'm glad you're mentioning it, and the general skepticism about serverless; it's not a golden hammer, its applications are limited, and not every problem should be (can be?) solved with a serverless architecture. The same goes for microservices, which is another gold hammer that people picked up and started to apply to a lot of problems - I've seen a few projects where microservices was the initial architecture, while all of those would've been better off with a monolith for the first two years of operation (before any significant load) to figure out the actual problem to be solved.