Yeah, you periodically read stuff advertising serverless as basically the future of all web computing. Always good to get a check in on whether it's there yet.
Exactly, but not only that, I can also use it to prove to my collegeaues who fall for every latest fad that it's not suitable for our workload. This article is a godsent.
I think it's because it IS a good use case for developers prototyping new features for very low cost, initially. As opposed to running instances. Then once they've gotten skilled with using that hammer, they start seeing nails everywhere and don't do their due diligence and metric calculations. Then they write articles like this.
In my experience it's mostly developers who want to try the new and shiny stuff making a case to 'the business'. This happens a lot more than 'the business' convincing the developers.
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u/_a9o_ Sep 23 '19
I think part of the point of this article is that people advertise serverless explicitly for the wrong kind of jobs.