Serverless: Five Key Things you need to Know
summary
Claims concrete savings and tools: cloud functions shift pricing from reserved capacity to metered usage so IDC finds ~80% faster releases and ~60% cost reduction when moving to functions; example pricing is ~$0.20 per million invocations with 1M free and a 100ms task every five minutes costing ~¢0.01/month. AWS features that change tradeoffs include SAM, X‑Ray, EventBridge, RDS proxy and provisioned concurrency; cold starts largely improve (95% of Node.js starts <0.5s). Real migration experience: moving to Lambda halves hosting costs while active users grow ~50%.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:10Serverless: Five Key Things you need to know gojko.net/assets/ndclon-2020.pdf
- 24:37Paying for utilisation not capacity not environments not service instances
- 33:20The (AWS) ecosystem around functions is now quite mature
- 41:54Functions should really be for your specific business logic
- 50:36"Serverless" is moving beyond functions
- 53:57It's becoming an integration model
- 57:47RUNNING SERVERLESS
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