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so serverless is a thing again #326

Open ruebenramirez opened 8 years ago

ruebenramirez commented 8 years ago

Serverless is the new proprietary vendor alternative to containers. AWS's Lambda is all the rage right now.

Serverless isn't a new concept though. Google App Engine has been around for a quite a few years now. I've heard in passing that it's expensive and the framework can be limiting. (No RDBMS API was available last time I really heard anything about GAE, so devs were having to learn Google's NoSQL API in order to persist data.)

I'm interested in the difference between Lambda, Google App Engine (GAE), and the GAE open source alternative Appscale