The Fulfilled Promise of Serverless
I respectfully disagree with the arguments made on Last Week in AWS against Serverless.
Regarding portability issues
The problem described is down to architecture. Do you need to add logic that handles the API Gateway? Yes. Does it have to be an integral part of your Lambda functions? No. In the majority of Serverless stacks that I've seen, the handling of the API Gateway event (think auth, middleware, different content types, etc.) is done in a separate package and can be relatively easily re-implemented for another Cloud provider. I do accept the premise of AWS Step Functions being the exception to this rule, but I don't believe they are absolutely necessary (nor do they feel productive to work with). Most Step Functions structure can be replaced by either a Queue or Messaging system, depending on the requirements.Regarding the perceived value fallacy
Essentially the argument is about the limited impact savings Serverless could bring to the table compared to the overall budget. One critical thing isn't taken into account - The inevitable DevOps department. I have seen plenty of early stage startup with 5-10 engineers and zero DevOps. Nearly in every one of those cases they were able to do that by going either fully managed (e.g. Vercel, Auth0) or fully Serverless. Those saved salaries count for much more than the net savings on the infrastructure budget.Regarding the difficulty of collaboration compared to WordPress
It is unclear in your argument whether those collaborators were writers or engineers, but I'm assuming writers. I do agree that it is much easier to write articles using WordPress than your home-made lean Serverless solution. This however completely misses the point. It is not WordPress the writers are missing, it is the WYSIWYG editor (In WordPress's case - Gutenberg). There are plenty of full-featured Markdown editors that can directly save to GitHub. A website generator such as Hugo could easily connect those repositories with your website and presto! Writers are happy again.Posted in
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