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Ask HN: Is Serverless Overkill?

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Re: Ask HN: Is Serverless Overkill?

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> External caches are resilient to total failure and the need to failover to another environment. > Memory leaks are a non-issue - seriously, you're processing the transaction and durably storing the result and going away. I've seen systems written this way that have been running for over 20 years. > The system is more resilient, there's no pretense to it. I have anecdotal data from many projects developed by many te…

> I've seen systems written this way that have been running for over 20 years. So? History and same mistakes have repeated for centuries in many areas. Does that make it good? > I have anecdotal data from many projects developed by many teams in multiple companies now that show the business disruptions have decreased and decreased considerably. And so? Someone else likely has anecdotal data otherwise. How do you even…

Where's your actual argument? All you're doing is arguing with straw men. I'm just telling you what I've seen across multiple teams and multiple companies.

Faster, cheaper, better.

That's been my experience.

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