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0 pointsJoeAltmaier6y ago0 comments

Ha! The new infrastructure of cloud services was supposed to be easier. But it too has gotten complex, with managing VMs, app updates, OS updates, networking issues, load balancing etc.

All to get the often-vapor feature of 'scalability'. And it seems believable because these frameworks are so heavy, they run like slugs and need to scale almost immediately.

{old guy rant} In the old days, we got 1200 queries per second from our stock quote server, on a pathetic single-processor server with 12MB RAM. Didn't need to scale, not for 5 years.

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garethmcc6y ago· 1 in thread

The Serverless Framework doesn't add any load onto your application. It is essentially an Infrastructure as Code tool to help you compose an application out of a collection of managed services that are all pay per use and do not bill by the hour with no managing VMs, app updates, OS updates, networking issues, load balancing etc.

JoeAltmaierOP6y ago

I'm sure! It sounds like a good service, since app folks are boxed in by the current paradigm.

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