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by jeffbee 2140 days ago
Serverless: so grown up that Google App Engine launched 12 years ago and hosts several huge, valuable services. The question of whether serverless is ready answered itself years ago. The remaining questions for prospective adopters are whether it meets your requirements, and are you mentally ready to adopt it (because cramming legacy concepts into serverless never works).
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And in reverse, it can be surprisingly tricky to convince serverless advocates that it's not so new and GAE fits their definitions.
To most people, serverless==lambda. That's where most of the conversation lives and dies.
I'd be a lot less grumpy at them if they talked about "Lambda" or even "FaaS" development then :D