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"Traditional serverless offerings come with challenges such as constrained runtime support and vendor lock-in. [...]" I'm quite aware that there's a technology
by w-m 8y ago
"Traditional serverless offerings come with challenges such as constrained runtime support and vendor lock-in. [...]"
I'm quite aware that there's a technology hype cycle in web development, quickly replacing last year's fad. But whoever came up with the idea of putting the words `traditional` ("following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time without changing") and `serverless` together is taking this to a new level of ridiculousness.
- asciimike 8y agoFive years is a long time in a world where front end frameworks seem to change every six months ;) Kidding aside, how would you suggest we re-phrase this to make it clear that we think that arbitrary Docker containers + conformance to the Knative spec (which you can run anywhere) is a clear differentiator?
- w-m 8y agoI would have been probably less irritated by something simple like "current serverless solutions". But I'm not a web developer and don't understand the differentiation details you mention, so I'm not in the target demographic here. From my outsider's perspective, serverless is something that just recently came into mainstream usage. People who this product is made for probably see this differently and thus wouldn't have a problem with the formulation. Language pedantry aside, good luck with your product launch :)
- scarmig 8y ago"First generation"? Archetypal?
- lima 8y agoThere's a whole section on "Enabling portability with Knative" and even though I only skimmed the page, I got the message that this is an open standard just like Kubernetes. As for running regular Docker/OCI containers, I would put more emphasis on how awesome this is for developers: It's just regular HTTP in Docker containers. You can debug and develop this locally without mocking anything, and it's the same code that runs in production! And it's all open source. No need to install a Lambda emulator that is almost, but not quite, like the real thing. I never even considered using AWS Lambda due to the lock in and how annoying it is to work with, but this is something I'll evaluate (by trying it on my local k8s cluster).
- luhn 8y agoI think "the entire time this thing has existed" is plenty long.