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I believe Serverless technologies are a game changer for the 99%. I work at a firm that could be considered part of the 99%. We build mission critical apps, but

by cebert 5y ago

I believe Serverless technologies are a game changer for the 99%. I work at a firm that could be considered part of the 99%. We build mission critical apps, but don’t have entire teams dedicated to building platforms or managing Kubernetes. Most of our talent is average compared to FAANG. We don’t have SREs or developer advocates, but we do have customers who rely on our software for life and death situations. Serverless technologies help us build scalable, highly-available, and performant cloud applications that run by default in multiple availability zones and multi-region with minimal additional effort. We leverage GitHub Actions to drive our CI/CD process and automated testing. Instead of focusing on managing servers and cloud infrastructure, us simple 99% developers, those who get passed up by FAANG and Leetcode grinder interviews, can build solid applications that provide value to our customers and generate nice profit margins. The 99% can deliver apps that can perform similar to the 1% with far less complexity.

zozbot234 5y ago
CGI was the first Serverless technology. Then PHP did it even better.
- emrahsamdan 5y ago
  Serverless as a term mixed up with FaaS. In 2022, Serverless is more general as it can be defined anything that autoscales to infinity and scales to zero when not used and pay per use. Amazon DynamoDB is also serverless in that sense for example.
  - zozbot234 5y ago
    > anything that autoscales to infinity and scales to zero when not used and pay per use Ah, you mean grid/utility computing. But as you point out that's broader than FaaS.
pokepim 5y ago
100% agree. Even tough i work at F500 company our team acts like a startup. With server less we don’t need to hire expensive devops and shell out millions for expensive k8s clusters. I am pretty sure it’s the future for most of us.
emrahsamdan 5y ago
There are thousands, if not millions, of developers, now using serverless to build real-life customer-facing applications. As in the whole new tech, it gets adopted for non mission critical apps first between 2016-2018. Starting with 2019, more and more companies adopted the technology and the Cloud providers, especially AWS, invested heavily to improve the integrations and remove the roadblockers. See how Lego has moved the whole e-commerce app into serverless. https://medium.com/lego-engineering/accelerating-with-serverless-625da076964b https://medium.com/lego-engineering/accelerating-with-server... I also strongly believe that severless is an overloaded term and everyone understands something different from it. Some people consider this only as a FaaS but I think that it's any cloud service, that can auto-scale to infinity, scales to zero, pay-per-use and managed. I frankly believe Serverless should be regarded as a paradigm rather than a technology advancement. here's a very nice blog about it: https://ben11kehoe.medium.com/serverless-is-a-state-of-mind-717ef2088b42 https://ben11kehoe.medium.com/serverless-is-a-state-of-mind-...

by cebert 5y ago

zozbot234 5y ago

CGI was the first Serverless technology. Then PHP did it even better.

emrahsamdan 5y ago
Serverless as a term mixed up with FaaS. In 2022, Serverless is more general as it can be defined anything that autoscales to infinity and scales to zero when not used and pay per use. Amazon DynamoDB is also serverless in that sense for example.
- zozbot234 5y ago
  > anything that autoscales to infinity and scales to zero when not used and pay per use Ah, you mean grid/utility computing. But as you point out that's broader than FaaS.

pokepim 5y ago

100% agree. Even tough i work at F500 company our team acts like a startup. With server less we don’t need to hire expensive devops and shell out millions for expensive k8s clusters. I am pretty sure it’s the future for most of us.

emrahsamdan 5y ago

There are thousands, if not millions, of developers, now using serverless to build real-life customer-facing applications. As in the whole new tech, it gets adopted for non mission critical apps first between 2016-2018. Starting with 2019, more and more companies adopted the technology and the Cloud providers, especially AWS, invested heavily to improve the integrations and remove the roadblockers. See how Lego has moved the whole e-commerce app into serverless. https://medium.com/lego-engineering/accelerating-with-serverless-625da076964b https://medium.com/lego-engineering/accelerating-with-server... I also strongly believe that severless is an overloaded term and everyone understands something different from it. Some people consider this only as a FaaS but I think that it's any cloud service, that can auto-scale to infinity, scales to zero, pay-per-use and managed. I frankly believe Serverless should be regarded as a paradigm rather than a technology advancement. here's a very nice blog about it: https://ben11kehoe.medium.com/serverless-is-a-state-of-mind-717ef2088b42 https://ben11kehoe.medium.com/serverless-is-a-state-of-mind-...