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I can see the value of serverless in general (not this hack necessarily) in small startups that don't have sysadmins on payroll but still want to rapidly deploy
by ohnemint 6y ago
I can see the value of serverless in general (not this hack necessarily) in small startups that don't have sysadmins on payroll but still want to rapidly deploy products with confidence that it will just work - all without worrying about infrastructure, scaling, etc.
What I'm curious is if (1) serverless is cheaper than hiring competent sysadmins who can maintain the infrastructure instead and (2) are these savings worth being locked into a chaotic architecture and boring proprietary tooling that is forced on you for the profit of the Google, Microsoft, and Amazon monopolies?
I've recently entered the job market and personally find no joy in working in serverless environments because of the latter.
- jeltz 6y agoPersonally I suspect that the chaotic tooling will waste more dev time than what the sysadmin time will cost you. So that it will be a net loss even before you consider lock-in and fees.
- pdimitar 6y agoWhile a good argument in favor of the vendor locked-in serverless services can be made at the start of a project, it looks like a net loss during any other phase of the project. It comes down to if you want to have generic and reusable sysadmins vs. cloud serverless specialists.
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- sojournerc 6y agoHeroku fits the bill for me. Very easy to manage and scale, still cheaper than an SRE or sysadmin.