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Lambda is 5 year old technology. This is like arguing in 2011 that startups shouldn’t use EC2, because it’s “risky”.

• unicornmama 7y ago
  The technology age isn’t the issue. The issue is how many projects have successfully deployed large scale reliable systems built with Lambda.
  • abiro 7y ago
    The internet is full of success stories if you care to look. My favorites: - iRobot (maker of Roomba) has been running its entire IoT stack serverless since 2016 (architect Ben Kehoe is a worthwhile follow on Twitter) - Reddit’s video hosting service is built and operated by a single engineer on a serverless stack
    • unicornmama 7y ago
      Thanks. This is good info.
    • danillonunes 7y ago
      Reddit’s self hosted video is terrible. Using them to advocate serverless is like using Twitter on the fail whale days to advocate Rails.
  • laurentl 7y ago
    Large scale reliable systems are antinomic with “launching a startup”. You’re going to go through 2 or 3 pivots and as many refactors, large scale is the last thing you want to optimize for.