I never quite understood what problem serverless platforms were solving for companies that already deployed their own SAAS solution.
As the article says, serverless is one of many (many) ways to wrap a quantum of functionality inside an internet-accessible environment. You could have a chunk of python in a serverless setup, a small flask server in a container in k8s, as an endpoint in a monolith, etc. Each of these environments have difference performance, cost and maintenance characteristics, but I think of the star feature of serverless as the light deploy. For companies that don't have a deploy chain, that makes serverless very attractive, but if you've already invested in one it seems less compelling.
I think serverless products have a ton of potential for side projects and hobby projects. It's great that you can just type out python and access it on the internet immediately! That quality just never seemed to be what was holding back SAAS companies.
As the article says, serverless is one of many (many) ways to wrap a quantum of functionality inside an internet-accessible environment. You could have a chunk of python in a serverless setup, a small flask server in a container in k8s, as an endpoint in a monolith, etc. Each of these environments have difference performance, cost and maintenance characteristics, but I think of the star feature of serverless as the light deploy. For companies that don't have a deploy chain, that makes serverless very attractive, but if you've already invested in one it seems less compelling.
I think serverless products have a ton of potential for side projects and hobby projects. It's great that you can just type out python and access it on the internet immediately! That quality just never seemed to be what was holding back SAAS companies.