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by brianwawok 3075 days ago
> With serverless I don't have to keep the os’s updated and hardened,

You can easily get this with CoreOS + docker images on GCE

> manage load balancing

Load balancers are one click since what, 2005?

> or scaling (yes I’m aware of the cold start latency cost).

Except you do. You run a 4 CPU database on the backend. How many lambdas can hit it at once before it dies? You need to manage this still.

Lambda is not the worst thing ever, but many many things using it would be far better off on something like kubernetes or a docker image behind a load balancer.