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be me
serverless supervisor
in charge of making sure the serverless environment is in fact, serverless
occasionally have to check if it’s really serverless
one day, find out there are actual servers being used
serverless environment is no longer serverless
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ask my boss what to do
he says “just make it serverless again”
I say “how”
he says “I don’t know, you’re the supervisor”
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quit my job
become a servers supervisor
first day on the job, go to the new server room
it’s empty, serverless
You forgot the part where the provider of your serverless charges you a multiple of what your idling server would cost you.
It’s basically slicing up a server and selling you some slices at an exaggerated premium.
You spend more on supervising the stuff running on the slices so they don’t bankrupt you when a peak happens than you would for maintaining a server.
But hey, it’s fashionable to be serverless so let’s all do it