Rethinking serverless with FLAME

Post by quaunaut » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 3:05 PM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #135

quaunaut wrote: post #118

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> If customers think this is a feature and not a bug, then I have a very different understanding about what serverless/FaaS is meant to be used for. My division is pretty much only looking at edge networking scenarios. Can I redirect you to a CDN asset in Boston instead of going clear across the country to us-west-1? We would definitely NOT run Lamba out of us-west-1 for this work. I'm not sure how you're misundersta…

> just Every solution is easy when you oversimplify the problem. None of what you said is true if you care about persistent state in the app. Local reads and distant writes are how you avoid speed of light problems.

Post by touisteur » Sat, Dec 09, 2023, 3:56 PM UTC

antod wrote: post #108

hinkley wrote: post #81

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A pattern I see over and over, which has graduated to somewhere between a theorem and a law, is that motivated developers can make just about any process or architecture work for about 18 months. By the time things get bad, it's almost time to find a new job, especially if the process was something you introduced a year or more into your tenure and are now regretting. I've seen it with a handful of bad bosses, at lea…

That's why I'm always wary of people who hardly ever seem to stay anywhere more than a couple of years. There's valuable learning (and empathy too) in having to see your own decisions and creations through their whole lifecycle. Understanding how tech debt comes to be, what tradeoffs were involved and how they came to bite later. Which ideas turned out to be bad in hindsight through the lens of the people making them…