FaaS or not to FaaS — Visible and Invisible Advantages of the Serverless Paradigm
summary
The talk examines real total cost of ownership for serverless on AWS, going beyond Lambda function pricing to include costs of API Gateway, SNS/SQS/Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB and Aurora Serverless. It presents a decision checklist for when to adopt the serverless paradigm, weighing cost plus lifecycle, architecture and platform limits, and organizational knowledge requirements.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50Financial advantages
- 6:10Operational benefits
- 11:32Total cost of ownership
- 15:48Use case checklist
- 21:46Workload fit
- 30:19Platform limitations
- 42:26Team impact
- 45:54Tooling
- 50:51Serverless future
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