Digging into the helpful replies people posted, it seems the serverless fad is a function of high cloud pricing. It's particularly funny that it makes the same promises cloud services did a decade ago ("pay only for what you need!").
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I would love to run the experiment where I try running Pinboard on AWS for a week, and serverless for a week, to compare costs, but I literally can't afford it. Delicious before I bought it was racking up a $28K/month cloud bill just serving spambots. Now it costs ~$200/month.
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Every word of that link made me angry. You can't serve without a server; the cloud is "other people's hardware." I hate the modern internet.
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You sound suspiciously like a suppressive person
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It’s just, and bear with me here, someone else’s server.
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My favorite current buzzword is "bare metal cloud instances." There's no hypervisor! No virtualization to slow you down! No one else sharing the system resources! So, we've bypassed the cloud and come full-circle back to dedicated servers, they're just more expensive now.
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Write code in our extremely opinionated framework, and if the problem you're solving matches our paradigm exactly, you get a super scalable service with no extra engineering effort. If you don't match the paradigm perfectly, have fun debugging weird problems forever.
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There are ~2 competing definitions: 1) AWS Lambda-esque architectures; microservices (ie. everything is a distributed system) where each service is hosted and billed separately by your hosting provider.
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2) Firebase-esque architectures; there's no authorative server / central point of trust/authorization controlled by you at all, you 100% rely on your client-side JS talking to third-party APIs that you don't control, with generally janky integrations.
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