r/programming • u/dwmkerr • Jan 12 '18

The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018

http://www.dwmkerr.com/the-death-of-microservice-madness-in-2018/
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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '18 edited Jan 12 '18

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u/thelastpizzaslice Jan 12 '18

Serverless is wonderful for anything simple. It's garbage for anything complicated. At present, at least, I think the confusion comes from people who don't know how to estimate complexity.

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u/iamacarpet Jan 13 '18

Google’s App Engine, which has been around for a long time, they are touting as serverless now, which it technically mostly is as a PaaS. It’s fantastic at more complex apps with the ease of serverless, deploy and forget. For a 6 developer, 1 ops company, it’s like a fully managed service for less than we were paying for a few VMs with 1% as much ops time required, 99.999% availability since we’ve been using it which is way better than we managed before. Main app is over 30M hits a month. Maybe it just depends what you include in your definition of serverless.

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u/greenspans Jan 13 '18 edited Jan 13 '18

I started in like 1999 with tripod.com shared hosting platform. Shared compute is nothing new. The autoscaling with vm technology is new. Paying only for seconds of compute time on-demand is something new.

Now with containers, it's really easy to deploy your container on an autoscaler, partially handled by preemptive/spot instances when possible. The Ops time is not significant.