X : Do you think we should be adopting serverless? Me : Nothing to think about. You have no choice. It's not a question of "if" but "when" i.e. adopt now or later. X : It doesn't fit all use cases. Me : There will be a few future niches but vast majority will change.
Zero scalability is a feature outside of HFT, taking a punt sans full cost/risk might actually encourage innovation. I helped a startup finish & put a commodities trading platform into production last year. They made 2 trades but were buzzword compliant before losing funds!
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Good engineers, great ex-trader PMs but delusional product owners / funding team who thought bare metal and their own data centres were justified when cloud/serverless was free ...
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You'll clearly have to explain this over a beer, as I just can't see how a high-performance, high-volume state machine that needs ordering guarantees and needs to keep state over a period of hours or days fits neatly in a serverless model.
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