[danielvaughn]

100%. Someone set up serverless at my last freelance company. Just due to the cold start, our network requests were averaging SIX seconds. This was even for requests that were just getting basic config stuff, i.e. no DB transactions required. Insanity.

[ThePadawan]

The project I was working on at the time replaced an Excel sheet in the order of hundreds of MB. The users were used to performance being miserable, so no one cared if an API request took two seconds.

I am an old school kind of engineer, and if you tell me your web requests take 2s instead of 20ms due to an architectural decision you made that doesn't have any other strong upsides, I would agree that that is insanity.