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This very much. I find that often times we are looking at a narrow subset of the factors that lead to certain choices or technologies. Yes, there is a lot of fl

This very much. I find that often times we are looking at a narrow subset of the factors that lead to certain choices or technologies. Yes, there is a lot of fluff sometimes but there’s also the cycle of wanting to improve on existing pain points. Things like serverless appeal to businesses due to the much smaller logistical implications it presents to a business. Some businesses enjoy that (at least as promised), It’s all taken care of and the team you need to manage it is likely to be smaller. It’s pay as you go for what would otherwise imply more human beings and contracts on your plate. I imagine at some point those baked in costs and redundancies, the luxury of having huge scale on demand in a general sense, will be much higher than something thoughtfully designed when a company has understood their needs well enough after operating at scale. For what it’s worth I prefer bare metal clusters :)

foffoofof 3y ago
Serverless in the way we do it today is the best example of something that is impossible to debug. Every choice people have to make in tech today comes with this crazy tradeoff of where you get some benefit like scalability, but then it becomes impossible to debug or change. What's crazy about modern tech is that we've created a world where its so difficult to change things that its analogous to building pipes under asphalt roads. You have to spend all night with a construction crew digging up the road just to change a small thing, and then you have to put it all back again. Except that we work with digital stuff (any physical stuff is completely abtracted) where we can theoretically change anything instantly. The fact that we use shipping container analogies is ironic, if you've ever seen how long shipping loading/unloading and transport actually takes. We need to get back to the computer as the bicycle of the mind...at the moment it is not. I think we will look back on this era of tech as we do to the era of the secretary on the typewriter...and laugh at the inefficiency.
- antoniojtorres 3y ago
  Agreed on the trade offs, not sure if to the same degree though. It seems to me that it’s critical to know if you’re gonna end up going “against the grain” on a platform that makes as many decisions as a serverless one does.

foffoofof 3y ago

Serverless in the way we do it today is the best example of something that is impossible to debug. Every choice people have to make in tech today comes with this crazy tradeoff of where you get some benefit like scalability, but then it becomes impossible to debug or change. What's crazy about modern tech is that we've created a world where its so difficult to change things that its analogous to building pipes under asphalt roads. You have to spend all night with a construction crew digging up the road just to change a small thing, and then you have to put it all back again. Except that we work with digital stuff (any physical stuff is completely abtracted) where we can theoretically change anything instantly. The fact that we use shipping container analogies is ironic, if you've ever seen how long shipping loading/unloading and transport actually takes. We need to get back to the computer as the bicycle of the mind...at the moment it is not. I think we will look back on this era of tech as we do to the era of the secretary on the typewriter...and laugh at the inefficiency.

antoniojtorres 3y ago
Agreed on the trade offs, not sure if to the same degree though. It seems to me that it’s critical to know if you’re gonna end up going “against the grain” on a platform that makes as many decisions as a serverless one does.