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by sciurus
848 days ago
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> I don’t even understand what the author wants here. There is no such thing “truly serverless” The author says what they want. It's literally their next sentence: "As in, I don't want to think about future resource needs, I just want things to magically handle it." and they have four bullet points with examples of what this means to them earlier. I think it's fair to argue about the desirability, achievability, etc of this. I don't think it's fair to act as if the author is just spewing buzzwords without explanation. |
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- Why do I have to think about the underlying pool of resources? Just maintain it for me.
- I don't ever want to provision anything in advance of load.
- I don't want to pay for idle resources. Just let me pay for whatever resources I'm actually using.
- Serverless doesn't mean it's a burstable VM that saves its instance state to disk during periods of idle.
This article was written in 2021.
AWS Lambda was introduced in 2014 that fulfilled all of those requirements in those bullet points that you mentioned. Google App Engine is the same, it was introduced in 2008.
So again, this article tells only one thing: that the author does not know what he is talking about.