[qaq]

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.

[9rx]

Some frameworks used to support serverless applications are completely over-engineered cesspools, no doubt, but it doesn't have to be that way.

[qaq]

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.

[9rx]

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.