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The point the article raises is whether those "non-FAANG engineers" should be using serverless at all. Will their requirements ever scale to a point where it a

The point the article raises is whether those "non-FAANG engineers" should be using serverless at all. Will their requirements ever scale to a point where it actually makes sense for them to be deployed as serverless services?

arvinsim 5y ago
It's a chicken and egg problem. How would you gain professional experience in something that is out of your current scope? For example, if a frontend web developer wants to pivot to backend using serverless.
weq 5y ago
So by No-FAANG engineer, you mean someone who isnt a robot ad hawker sell out? Serverless allows anyone to be scale for minimal up-front cost and only pay for the usage they really need. So glad that FAANG attract all this rare talent so us no-FAANG engineers can make a buck.
- lelanthran 5y ago
  > So by No-FAANG engineer, you mean someone who isnt a robot ad hawker sell out? Come now, is there any reason to throw those insults?
  - Annatar 5y ago
    Many.
pjerem 5y ago
> Will their requirements ever scale to a point where it actually makes sense And even that. Let’s treat scaling issues latter. Create something that can be scaled horizontally dumbly, like a monolith you can run on n servers so you can scale without loosing money and then scaling can become your problem. And that’s probably never if you are b2b like a majority of companies, since your usage depends and can be predicted from your sales team performance.
closeparen 5y ago
mod_php is a serverless compute platform. The better question, will anyone’s requirements ever scale to a point where it makes sense for them to NOT be deployed as a serverless service? FTPing source code to a shared hosting provider is about as simple a deployment story as it gets; people bring all kinds of incredible complexity and thousands of hours of work on themselves messing with daemons, init scripts, systemd units, VM images, containers, schedulers, etc.
- lmz 5y ago
  I guess you could pretend mod_php serverless until it needs to be load balanced and then it turns out the code actually relies on writing to the filesystem...

arvinsim 5y ago

It's a chicken and egg problem. How would you gain professional experience in something that is out of your current scope? For example, if a frontend web developer wants to pivot to backend using serverless.

weq 5y ago

So by No-FAANG engineer, you mean someone who isnt a robot ad hawker sell out? Serverless allows anyone to be scale for minimal up-front cost and only pay for the usage they really need. So glad that FAANG attract all this rare talent so us no-FAANG engineers can make a buck.

lelanthran 5y ago
> So by No-FAANG engineer, you mean someone who isnt a robot ad hawker sell out? Come now, is there any reason to throw those insults?
- Annatar 5y ago
  Many.

pjerem 5y ago

> Will their requirements ever scale to a point where it actually makes sense And even that. Let’s treat scaling issues latter. Create something that can be scaled horizontally dumbly, like a monolith you can run on n servers so you can scale without loosing money and then scaling can become your problem. And that’s probably never if you are b2b like a majority of companies, since your usage depends and can be predicted from your sales team performance.

closeparen 5y ago

mod_php is a serverless compute platform. The better question, will anyone’s requirements ever scale to a point where it makes sense for them to NOT be deployed as a serverless service? FTPing source code to a shared hosting provider is about as simple a deployment story as it gets; people bring all kinds of incredible complexity and thousands of hours of work on themselves messing with daemons, init scripts, systemd units, VM images, containers, schedulers, etc.

lmz 5y ago
I guess you could pretend mod_php serverless until it needs to be load balanced and then it turns out the code actually relies on writing to the filesystem...