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I've heard they are good for prototyping things where you need to change APIs and spin up new stuff easily. It might be better than using a service where you're
by nixpulvis 2y ago
I've heard they are good for prototyping things where you need to change APIs and spin up new stuff easily. It might be better than using a service where you're basically required to have devops.
That said, you can also just spin up a VPS and use systemd to manage a service at small scale. There are also other PaaS solutions in addition to "serverless/lambda".
I've heard some horror stories about "lambda" pricing as well, so I'd make sure to read into that before becoming too dependent.
- yasserf 2y agoDo you think having a normalization layer between serverless and server-based approaches could actually help with the issue of becoming too dependent? I find that the tight integration with providers like Azure, AWS, or CloudFront can make switching between them a very costly upfront decision. Another disadvantage of serverless is that it’s quite challenging to produce an on-premises or enterprise-ready codebase if the need suddenly arises.
- nixpulvis 2y agoBeing able to run things locally (like this post describes) is the only way anything should be accepted.
- myaccountonhn 2y agoOr you can upload a cgi script to a web host like hetzner, then you have “serverless” too.