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by homerjam 2780 days ago
I place high value on simplicity and portability so despite not being fully optimal a monolithic docker app is a good choice for me.

The reason I'm still on DO is because I need dependencies that are both large and trivial to install in docker vs. creating a custom EC2 image. To make it clear I was hoping to deploy a docker container with ffmpeg to support long running video conversions whilst benefiting from easy deploys and on demand pricing. It seems like the potential for this alluded to in the serverless docker announcement has been removed?

I can see how this V2 makes serverless simpler but the strict limits will mean that transitioning a monolithic app requires a lot of work up front. Increasing the limits would reduce that friction greatly. Whilst not best practice deploying an existing express app and have it 'just work' is a compelling reason to go serverless.