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by 9rx 525 days ago
And even then it is not strictly necessary. Cloud Run comes to mind as offering the ability to scale to zero, yet allows (maybe even requires?) maintaining the server in the application. The real benefit of "serverless" is that you no longer have to worry about the server, it being removed. Granted, that is not a big worry much these days with all the great server frameworks available.
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qaq 525 days ago
I’d much rather write 20 lines of boilerplate code and a Dockerfile than deal with 100s lines of CDK code, distributed tracing, and the associated observability challenges.
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9rx 525 days ago
Some frameworks used to support serverless applications are completely over-engineered cesspools, no doubt, but it doesn't have to be that way.
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qaq 525 days ago
It has nothing to do with the framework if it's a web app you have to manage deploy of multiple lambdas and API gateway.
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9rx 525 days ago
Why? Just throw your program executable in the cgi-bin directory like we did in the olden days, go wash your hands, and then call it a day. Simple. Serverless!

Serverless doesn't have to be over engineered-garbage, even if some bored technologists looking for a promotion and/or to pad their resume try their best to make it so.

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