[wahnfrieden]

for example lambda (not microservices, running mini monoliths per lambda function)

yes by simple I mean covering high availability requirements, continuous deployment, good DORA measures - not simple as in half-baked non-functional operations (such as manually sshing to a server to deploy)

[okamiueru]

Ah, I see. Well, lambdas are also a nice tool to have, but it certainly do not fit for all applications (same as with k8s). I'd also point out that lambdas replace a rather small capabilities of k8s, and the type of systems you can put together. You would end up needing to set up the rest either through a terrible AWS UI or terraform. Neither of which I find to simplify things all that much, but perhaps this is a matter of taste.

In our case, the workers were both quite heavy in size (around 1 GB), and heavy in number crunching. For this reason alone (and there are plenty more), lambdas would be a poor fit. If you start hacking them to keep them alive because of long cold starts, you would lose me at the simple part.

[wahnfrieden]

>If you start hacking them to keep them alive because of long cold starts,

this is a few years out of date of platform capability, just fyi