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Function is an ok place to host a simple api. But don't you require more things for your apps to be useful, like databases which add cost?

• bob1029 3y ago
  Yes the functions use Azure SQL Hyperscale for persistence. > which add cost We aren't interested in free. You get what you pay for.
  • fauigerzigerk 3y ago
    >You get what you pay for. I would say it's a somewhat weak correlation that breaks down completely if you consider a wider range of architectures. Back when Google was a startup "you get what you pay for" is what people running Oracle on Solaris would tell you. And there was a sense in which it was true. There was no more reliable and feature rich way of scaling up. But starting something like Google on top of this egregiously expensive platform would have been completely uneconomical. It just wouldn't have happened. And I think it's the same thing today. There are good reasons for using those egregiously expensive offerings from the largest incumbants but if you are starting something where servers are a significant cost factor then you are well advised to look at other options that are orders of magnitude cheaper, even accounting for labour.