[larrik]

Lots of different opinions here, but:

My company has moved several "regular" websites to serverless. In fact, we just took the existing websites (which were often Django, sometimes huge ones) and dumped them into Lambda. The exact opposite of every "what serverless architectures are for" article you've ever read. And you know what?

It's awesome.

It's way cheaper than running it on EC2, and I never have to reboot a server or worry about their disks filling up or anything. Then when traffic spiked hard during the covid lockdowns? I did nothing. Lambda just handled it.

The only serious change we made to the setup was preloading a percentage of machines at all times to remove cold starts.

I'm not saying it's trivial (zappa, serverless, CDK), but usually one guy gets it working and the rest of the dev team changes nothing at all.

[jedberg]

Did you just dump the entire app into a single Lambda? I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out how to turn Django apps into services, but it never occurred to me that it could just make sense to dump the whole app in there.

[niteshade]

I've done similar, works great for Node, Python and PHP apps.

[larrik]

Yes, that is exactly what we did.