The Big Problem With 'Serverless'

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[theguyofalltrades]

I’m a sys dev at Amazon. They should really just say that you don’t need to manage the infrastructure. Great video btw!

[Juankinator]

I totally agree with your definition of serverless. If it can't scale down to zero, then it's not serverless. One service that does it right is DynamoDB, where they have the on-demand capacity option that does scale to zero, while also having the option to have provisioned capacity where you pay a flat fee for whatever you provisioned.

[pythonbrothersandfamily]

Thanks for your time bro. I have learnt a LOOOOT with your YT channel. From zero to hero. You're the best

[mpuukyb]

I've been thinking about this too, so kudos for making a video! AWS initially defined serverless as pay-per-use with no fixed costs, which sparked a lot of excitement. It's disheartening to see them move away from that core principle. It feels like their marketing department realized slapping "serverless" on everything boosts adoption, even if it strays from the original serverless philosophy.

[hamidoshaat]

I'm a big fan of your work and the way you explain things in an easy manner. I wish you could have a course on developing real serverless solutions using CDK

[nomadshiba]

When I thinking about serverless, i think that your code doesn't run all the time, it only runs per request.
So you can't store things on memory that lives longer than a request, without stuff like redis.

Never thought about it based on cost.
And edge is distrubuted serverless.

If you don't have code running on a server continuously, then it's serverless. Then it's just file hosting and per request functions.

[glennadams]

Great video! Perhaps you could do a comparison with Azure also? Always good info in your videos, keep up the great content.

[bennihana]

"Serverless" is just a marketing term at this point

[AlexandrShah]

I’ve just recently found out in the hard way that opensearch serverless is not that serverless. I forgot to destroy a cluster at work and at the end of the month it sent the company back 1 thousand dollars.

[samys]

Excellent video!... I agree with you, however is important to see that the services mentioned to present a model stateful such as are the databases engines in the other hand AWS overhead the term "serverless" for so many things; its a bad branding strategies

[LyubomirMitkov]

One of the many examples in our industry where when not being accurate enough at the beginning of defining something, the industry just expand it in all directions, and at the end, everything is both right and wrong, to the point it makes it worse to use the term than not using it.

[ozworth]

Thanks for the heads up. I really thought serverless meant serverless. I’ll be reading the fine print more closely going forward.

[codemadesimple]

Well done 🎉

Should we rather call serverless ‘stateless, on demand compute’?

And if that is really the case, does it mean it can evolve to run on any registered available device?

[rightwingsafetysquad]

I think the most accurate name is "vendor lock-in".

[mtmecax]

On the contrary of misleading marketing term "serverless", your that kind of videos are priceless, while trying to be a better Dev. Cloud costs are becoming bigger problems in any firm that I can hear from.

[noahgsolomon]

I'm surprised they don't even allow an opt in for Aurora Total Serverless (like v1) at the cost of longer cold starts.

[RDarrylR]

Serverless ain’t what it used to be - that is for sure.

It’s very disappointing and I doubt it will change. The good thing is that many of the key components that are required to build apps in the cloud are the original (and truly) serverless ones.

[roguesecurity]

100% agree with AOSS. It costs like hell and blew my mind to see the bill after 1 week

[busyrand]

Thanks for covering this... It never made any sense to me because you literally need to interact with a server to receive the results of the server less functions/services...

[nathanbenton]

great vid. serverless emr, etc. migration back to on prem in our future