[xylophile]

The pendulum has swung (is swinging?) for many companies back to on-prem for cost savings. Self-hosted FAAS allows your developers to retain the abstraction over the compute platform (a step beyond what containers provide), and grants those running the physical infra significant flexibility in managing it. It's also arguably less complex than k8s for basically everyone, if your use case supports short-lived functions.

[smt88]

> The pendulum has swung (is swinging?) for many companies back to on-prem for cost savings.

This is only true of very large companies, so it doesn't change anything about this thread, which was saying that FaaS only makes sense if you're a public cloud or a large company with many on-prem servers.

[xylophile]

I guess it depends on your definition of "very large". You don't need a large company to have a large tech footprint, e.g. the Internet Archive.