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My biggest problem with modern infrastructure is how much resources they use for simple things. They scale upwards, but they don't scale down. I tried OpenFAAS

My biggest problem with modern infrastructure is how much resources they use for simple things. They scale upwards, but they don't scale down. I tried OpenFAAS in Kubernetes, to see if I could run simple lambda like loads. Default setup took north of 8 Gb of memory! I just want efficient and simple microservices infrastructure, that doesn't hog 8 Gb of memory to run a simple functions or small microservices.

kazen44 5y ago
might i recommend running simple (go) binaries on a couple of hosts running freebsd? (running them in a jail if you want). Proper isolation that is battle tested, rock solid operating system that doesn't try to reinvent the wheel every 3 years and as an added bonus you get ZFS which makes development, upgrades and maintenance a breeze thanks to proper snapshotting. We did this a simple side project, originally written in PHP, then python and now go and it has been rock solid and easily scalable for atleast a decade or more. Heck, you can even run linux compatible binaries in linux compatible jails nowadays[0]. 0: https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails