Serverless Is a Scam

So he learned containers and wants everyone to use them because it raises his competitive advantage. I didn't learn containers, am stuck at VPS and virtual machines stage, it's easier for me. I do think containers is a scam.

Re: Serverless Is a Scam

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Post by vlvdus » Sat, Apr 19, 2025, 5:42 AM UTC

> If your workload is truly intermittent and stateless, and you want zero operational effort, serverless can work.

And it works pretty well. A lot of internal and external JSON APIs are a good fit.

I've found the article ok, but it would have been a much nicer read without all the emotional stuff and just kept - serverless is pushed as panacea but actually isn't a good fit because...

Re: Serverless Is a Scam

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Post by huksley » Sat, Apr 19, 2025, 5:51 AM UTC

I really loved serverless for while, particularly in the early days, when building small projects. But AWS Lambdas, for example, is constant maintenance hell for larger applications, including building and dependency issues, debugging and slow deployment.

One feat is still amazes me - my AWS Lambda React webapp example (Todo with server rendering) which were deployed in 2019, still works as today, and I have not changed, or redeployed it since.

Re: Serverless Is a Scam

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Post by magicwizardrust » Sat, Apr 19, 2025, 5:55 AM UTC

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Re: Serverless Is a Scam

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Post by specproc » Sat, Apr 19, 2025, 6:01 AM UTC

magicwizardrust wrote: post #9

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Fair critique on the promotion, but you do see that a lot round here.

I share the frustration though and the article resonated with me. I'm currently working on a project that's being inappropriately done in cloud functions, and it's just dumb. We'll never scale beyond a few hundred users, but there's a load of considerations and hoop jumping we'd have completely skipped if the org had stayed off the Kool Aid.