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Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform

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Re: Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform

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Post by giancarlostoro »

danharaj wrote: post #2

Here's to hoping ignoring serverless will work as well as ignoring NoSQL worked for me.

Did not Google already make a cloud platform that is cloud agnostic called OpenCloud which is a better name that doesn't target just "Serverless" aka Azure Functions, Amazon Lambdas.

The use of "Serverless" is not having to deal with an "IT" guy at all who complains about setting up your app cause you updated the STACK and now it collides with everything else on the same server. Also makes it so you don't necessarily have to use containers.

Re: Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform

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Post by Bahamut »

danharaj wrote: post #2

Here's to hoping ignoring serverless will work as well as ignoring NoSQL worked for me.

This comment is a little strange - NoSQL is prevalent, especially when dealing with large data sets, or certain problems such as search.

That said, I’m not sold on serverless.

Re: Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform

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Post by baxtr »

Xorlev wrote: post #3
danharaj wrote: post #2

Here's to hoping ignoring serverless will work as well as ignoring NoSQL worked for me.

But don't you want perfect elastic scalability for your blockchain^W distributed ledger project? /s

You forgot the AI part...

Re: Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform

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Post by y4mi »

danharaj wrote: post #2

Here's to hoping ignoring serverless will work as well as ignoring NoSQL worked for me.

Serverless is at its heart - as I understand it - a dockerized microservice, abstracted away to a degree that the developer no longer has to think about anything but his application code.

You'll definitely be able to ignore it and it probably won't be used in smallish companies for ages.

It's just an easier way to to get your application to scale than homebuild docker images were.

Re: Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform

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Post by autotune »

danharaj wrote: post #2

Here's to hoping ignoring serverless will work as well as ignoring NoSQL worked for me.

Serverless has its place, that said I'm not sure how well this company is going to end up doing. Might be a bit biased but the most common serverless applications I've seen are all about integrating cloud services with each other, which is done on their own platform.

Re: Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform

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Post by toomuchtodo »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #5
danharaj wrote: post #2

Here's to hoping ignoring serverless will work as well as ignoring NoSQL worked for me.

Did not Google already make a cloud platform that is cloud agnostic called OpenCloud which is a better name that doesn't target just "Serverless" aka Azure Functions, Amazon Lambdas. The use of "Serverless" is not having to deal with an "IT" guy at all who complains about setting up your app cause you updated the STACK and now it collides with everything else on the same server. Also makes it so you don't necessarily…

I think the problem is all of this tooling (Docker, Serverless, NoSQL) has been created to “support developer velocity”, which really just ends up as technical debt. You can’t magic away the need for experience and domain knowledge.

Docker doesn’t replace the need to know how VMs work. Containers don’t magically allow you to scale to infinity (Although k8s shows a lot of potential). And you probably should be using PostgreSQL instead of NoSQL unless you’re absolutely sure you’re smart enough to know why PostgreSQL can’t work for your use case.

Serverless is great if you want to replace a cron job, the value of the function firing is substantially higher than the cost to run it (“margins are crazy high, optimize to VMs later and ignore the AWS bill for now”), or you’re executing untrusted code in isolation for customers.

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