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I don’t think cloud functions in any of the providers are going anywhere. In fact seeing how google is investing in cloud run (docker images as cloud function)

by nojvek 6y ago

I don’t think cloud functions in any of the providers are going anywhere. In fact seeing how google is investing in cloud run (docker images as cloud function) and other providers are catching on, this will be a growing trend. The ability to take whatever crazy code with spaghetti dependencies and freeze it into an image and have a cloud provider auto-scale from 0 to ludicrous in seconds is phenomenal ability. I love cloud functions. They make the perfect Webhooks.

akkartik 6y ago
You misunderstand; I'm not saying cloud functions will disappear. My claim is that the _details_ of how cloud functions work will gradually mutate in strange and subtle ways you can't anticipate today, in a manner akin to the way that Google Chrome's behavior has gradually mutated. Just because successful services will tend to follow their most lucrative customers' use cases. The long tail running tiny lambdas will lose influence over time. This may take many forms. Pricing models may change. Use cases that gradually see diminishing use may get discontinued (Google Chrome). You might get on some sort of treadmill of having to update details every so often (Facebook API). I can't predict what exactly will happen, but I believe that if your use case doesn't fit "we run a bazillion Lambdas and send tens of thousands of dollars (at least) into Amazon's bank account every month," any service you receive is accidental and contingent.