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"Serverless", or "App Engine" as it was called for the few years prior the hype, actually delivers pretty good results for a range of parameters. It might even
by lrem 7y ago
"Serverless", or "App Engine" as it was called for the few years prior the hype, actually delivers pretty good results for a range of parameters. It might even be a wider range of parameters than the ones where the results are subpar... Or not, I'm not sure how to weight the "I have a predictable base load large enough for its cost to dominate the other factors" vs the other cases. But as always - popularity of a tool is a poor predictor of fitness to particular job at hand.
- brazzy 7y ago> popularity of a tool is a poor predictor of fitness to particular job at hand. It is, however, a good predictor of the ease of finding people to do the job.
- waffle_ss 7y agoApp Engine is a PaaS, not serverless/FaaS
- cjblomqvist 7y agoIt's interesting how many still seem to (in this thread) believe you either have to run your own Linux servers in your basement or do FaaS (much better word to avoid the confusion), when there are many great in-between options.
- bt848 7y agoIs that your personal definition? On App Engine I deploy a function that gets invoked whenever an HTTP endpoint is requested. It clearly maps to the semantic of "function as a service" and I don't know about or control the number of servers so it also has the properties of "serverless".
- dangoor 7y agoI don't think there's a real difference https://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/original-serverless.htm https://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/original-serverles...