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If i recall one of the biggest selling point of lambda (serverless) was the “infinite” scale. Sounds like the “cash cow” for cloud service providers when used i
by xiwenc 3y ago
If i recall one of the biggest selling point of lambda (serverless) was the “infinite” scale. Sounds like the “cash cow” for cloud service providers when used in efficiently/inappropriately.
Besides the lower maintenance efforts.
- sofixa 3y ago> If i recall one of the biggest selling point of lambda (serverless) was the “infinite” scale From zero to "infinite", so very useful for highly variable or completely unknown workloads. Especially with the container version migrating away isn't a massive undertaking, so it's still very useful as a starting point.
- tomjen3 3y agoThats true. I think the example from AWS is some once in a quarter data ingestion being much, much cheaper on lambda, and of course if you have your own build machines then you are limited to how often you can build without having people waiting. But if you want low maintenance efforts, then you can get managed Kubernetes.
- nasmorn 3y agoSorry but managed Kubernetes is not low maintenance like Faas. I had a kubernetes upgrade fail and it was not fun to stand up a new cluster install newer versions of the ingress that could not longer be upgraded, migrate all the workloads. The k8s cluster is still very much your problem