[wyuenho]

Most developers weren’t deploying simple stateless functions. They were building full-stack apps: apps that talk to a database, that almost always is located in a single region.

I wonder if this is true in general for most people on serverless these days. If so, whether this is what the original intention of this movement and whether these people just don't want to deal with docker/k8s.

[mosura]

My gut feeling is that people want a modernized heroku. Managed RDBMS and an auto scaling set of servers that use it.

That covers a massive proportion of the companies that don’t need or want massive scale.

[o_m]

Most people and even most companies don't need horizontal scaling. Hardware has been much faster and cheaper since Heroku's heyday. Scaling vertically with 80+ cores on a single CPU and 256gb+ of ram only costs a few hundred dollars a month these days. With caching on a server like that, it can handle a million requests a second, or tens of thousands a second for dynamic data from the database on the same server.

[leptons]

If Deno were supported on AWS Lambda I might think about using it. FaaS on a major infrastructure provider is what I need. I'm not putting a project that means anything to me on Deno's servers, they aren't really leading the industry and might not be around in the blink of an eye the way the tech world is going lately.

[aryonoco]

Isn’t that Supabase?

[mosura]

No, that is just a database and runner for functions.

Heroku simplified deployment and operations dramatically, specifically for full Rails apps.