The big issue I think we miss when people say "why are you using Dynamo, just use SQL" or "why are you using hadoop, a bash shell would be faster" or "why are you using containers and kubernetes, just host a raspberry pi in your closet":
The former examples are all managed! That's amazing for scaling teams.
(SQL can be managed with, say, RDS. Sure. But it's not the same level of managed as Dynamo (or Firebase or something like that). It still requires maintenance and tuning and upkeep. Maybe that's fine for you (remember: the point of this article was to tell you to THINK, not to just ignore any big tech products that come out). But don't discount the advantage of true serverless.)
My goal is to be totally unable to SSH into everything that powers my app. I'm not saying that I want a stack where I don't have to. I'm saying that I literally cannot, even if I wanted to real bad. That's why serverless is the future; not because of the massive scale it enables, but because fuck maintenance, fuck operations, fuck worrying about buffer overflow bugs in OpenSSL, I'll pay Amazon $N/month to do that for me, all that matters is the product.
The former examples are all managed! That's amazing for scaling teams.
(SQL can be managed with, say, RDS. Sure. But it's not the same level of managed as Dynamo (or Firebase or something like that). It still requires maintenance and tuning and upkeep. Maybe that's fine for you (remember: the point of this article was to tell you to THINK, not to just ignore any big tech products that come out). But don't discount the advantage of true serverless.)
My goal is to be totally unable to SSH into everything that powers my app. I'm not saying that I want a stack where I don't have to. I'm saying that I literally cannot, even if I wanted to real bad. That's why serverless is the future; not because of the massive scale it enables, but because fuck maintenance, fuck operations, fuck worrying about buffer overflow bugs in OpenSSL, I'll pay Amazon $N/month to do that for me, all that matters is the product.