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Serverless may work well for sites that don't have a lot going on or don't have a lot of traffic. In our case, Serverless could not handle the number of reques
by innocentoldguy 7y ago
Serverless may work well for sites that don't have a lot going on or don't have a lot of traffic. In our case, Serverless could not handle the number of requests we were receiving nor could it handle the small compute job we handed it (zipping image files and pushing them to S3) at any kind of scale.
Even if Serverless performs well for certain sites, I think it is too much of a pain in the ass to set up for local development and deployment. There are better technologies out there that provide easier development setups and easier deployments that can also handle greater loads and compute needs. After using Serverless for the past year, I'm having a really hard time finding where it might make sense. It certainly doesn't belong in our tech stack and I would never reach for it again personally.