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Not a system architecture guy. When the industry says "serverless" they really mean hardware-less? It means you are renting on other people's servers?
by larrydag 6y ago
Not a system architecture guy. When the industry says "serverless" they really mean hardware-less? It means you are renting on other people's servers?
- bmm6o 6y agoServerless means you don't manage servers. For instance, you create containers but don't deal with the hosts.
- XCSme 6y agoHow do you mange cost, then? If you host your container on a DigitalOcean VPS, you can just spin one up in a few clicks and you have a consistent, predictable pricing. Who would be the target audience using "serverless" over spinning up a few virtual or dedicated servers? I haven't heard of any company that needed to instantly scale from 1k to 1m users overnight.
- XCSme 6y agoI hate the "serverless" term, but I think people just use "serverless" for platforms where you can write some code and it will be automatically deployed, hosted and scaled on their server(s). So instead of "serverless" it's more like pre-configured managed server clusters running where you can only run restricted code/functions. I personally don't understand who the target audience is, as small apps/companies very rarely (if ever) need to scale and large enterprise companies are probably better off hiring a sys admin and getting their own dedicated servers, which would lead to a lot more flexibility, performance and reduced costs.