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Intuitively, the popularisation of FaaS feels inevitable as lower level technical challenges get solved and give way to abstractions like this. Who knows though what our stack will look like in 20 years.
Intuitively, the popularisation of FaaS feels inevitable as lower level technical challenges get solved and give way to abstractions like this. Who knows though what our stack will look like in 20 years.
Looking behind what I have seen since I started paying attention in the 1980's, as it looks today, resold under new marketing terms, resold by newly founded startups that are disrupting the ecosystem.
It's interesting to see the heavily growing demand graph. Is that because people want to adopt it, or is it being mandated or encouraged as "best practice" etc? I'm not implying that true organic demand wouldn't exist because it definitely might, but I have seen in practice where leadership encourages or even mandates usage of FaaS, so the numbers go up even though on a neutral field people wouldn't necessarily choos…
> It's interesting to see the heavily growing demand graph. Is that because people want to adopt it, or is it being mandated or encouraged as "best practice" etc? FaaS is well justified from the point of view of an infrastructure provider. You get far better utilization from your hardware with a tradeoff of a convoluted software architecture and development model. In theory you also get systems that are easier to man…
What if you are both provider and user? Are the tradeoffs justified?
Inovation regarding FaaS comes from BigTechs. I wish we had more OpenSource FaaS solutions, albeit OpenFaas amazing achievements still lacks more robust ecosystem.
What would the point of self-hosted FaaS be? They lose their whole value proposition when you're paying for dedicated servers or when you don't have large numbers of servers.
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What would the point of self-hosted FaaS be? They lose their whole value proposition when you're paying for dedicated servers or when you don't have large numbers of servers.
Self-hosted FaaS is only worth it if you are at the same size as Meta. If smaller companies do this, it would be a big red flag for me.
As a developer who worked at small to medium sized companies, mainly developing microservices running on Kubernetes, I don't see a big advantage using FaaS as a customer. Maybe I am missing something? I am sure the provider gets more utilization for the hardware, but for the customer what's the point?
As a developer who worked at small to medium sized companies, mainly developing microservices running on Kubernetes, I don't see a big advantage using FaaS as a customer. Maybe I am missing something? I am sure the provider gets more utilization for the hardware, but for the customer what's the point?
Isn't it that you don't have to set up and maintain a kubernetes cluster?
As a developer who worked at small to medium sized companies, mainly developing microservices running on Kubernetes, I don't see a big advantage using FaaS as a customer. Maybe I am missing something? I am sure the provider gets more utilization for the hardware, but for the customer what's the point?
As I understand the XFaaS system from the article it functions a bit like a consolidated background worker system that any service can submit their work to and it will (try to) make sure it gets done in whatever SLO is specified. This is usually cheaper because now you can do low-urgency work from service B when there are urgent jobs from service A and vice versa, leading to higher average server usage. For small/medium businesses this is probably not something you'd want, since developing and operating such a system costs more than you save. But if you have a multi-million dollar bill for your background workers alone then it might be worth it.
As a developer who worked at small to medium sized companies, mainly developing microservices running on Kubernetes, I don't see a big advantage using FaaS as a customer. Maybe I am missing something? I am sure the provider gets more utilization for the hardware, but for the customer what's the point?
Isn't it that you don't have to set up and maintain a kubernetes cluster?
Maybe we would benefit more if we would have large spikes in resource usage, but we don't.