"Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in that we've ever seen in the history of humanity," said [CoreOS CEO Alex] Polvi, only partly in jest, referring to the most widely used serverless offering, AWS Lambda. "It's seriously as bad as it gets."
We agree with this assessment, but we feel that in the short-term AWS Lambda is most effective way of building certain infrequently used (but high peak demand) web services.
Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in we've ever seen in the history of humanity: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/06/coreos_kubernetes_v_world/
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19080875
We agree with this assessment, but we feel that in the short-term AWS Lambda is most effective way of building certain infrequently used (but high peak demand) web services.