Can anyone point me to an introduction to "serverless" that doesn't involve mastering Scientology-like levels of terminology and devotion?pic.twitter.com/xbLFtXy59s
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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.
The best thing about the serverless fad is that I have yet to see a pleasant way to deploy or test your code. I'm sureit exists, but it shouldn't be hard to find.
I’ve saved countless hours by avoiding technologies where I can find 100 “getting started” documents/videos but not a single “here’s how you’d deploy & support it (other than our expensive and opaque one-click service)” description.
I will say that until you started tweeting about this stuff, I didn't know servers could be less expensive. Still, database as a service and such does save a lot of ops effort on my end.
I am not 100% "old man yells at cloud", as long as people recognize they are making a trade-off. I do think it's hard to see the trade-off clearly if it's been a few years since you've played with modern hardware.
Last fall I interviewed someone who had interned at Amazon. He said they all use Lambdas but they put up a 2nd Lambda to ping the first Lambda every few minutes to keep it from spinning down because the startup times are too long.
We found cost savings from dropping a bit of Lamda into a process. Admittedly, we scoped it heavily AND we were looking more for concurrency than cost savings. But we did find some! https://medium.com/expected-behavior/edging-into-serverless-a06583c5320d …
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