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The value of serverless is in commodified operations: once you wrote the code, it’s your favorite cloud provider’s problem to run it. This lets you provide high
by abiro 7y ago
The value of serverless is in commodified operations: once you wrote the code, it’s your favorite cloud provider’s problem to run it. This lets you provide high-availability services without a 24/7 on-call rotation.
RDS and Fargate are not serverless, bc you still have to think about scaling strategies, appropriate network topologies and you might still have to wake up at night to tweak JVM or kernel settings in your containers.
- fulafel 7y agoIsn't tihs exactly the other way around in serverless vs container-based backends? Services like Fargate, GCE Cloud Run, App Engine, Heroku etc are good at "just running" your code and keeping it running. Serverless systems like Lambda, Azure Functions, etc need so much plumbing, devops, ci etc overhead around them that they are full time work for someone in a project.