What does it promise and what does it actually deliver?
Infinite scalability? It only solves the easiest part of it.
Cost reduction? As you seem to admit, generally this is only true at small scale.
Security updates? Fair enough, but this has never been the real problem. If you're at a point where security updates are that important you will unlikely leave them in the hands of a third party.
My bet is that what you're attributing to the benefits of serverless are not inherent to the serverless itself and are just benefits of infrastructure built around it.
Yeah, somehow "scale" + no server? ("serverless") combined catches VC fishes. I was exited about edge compute but it's been hijacked by these js engine hype that run function on serverless. It becomes indistinguishable between a concept of "compute close to user" and this serverless + js engine thingy.
I wouldn't be surprised if large portion of serverless market is javascript. And rust driven wasm. So monoculture right now.
What is the big problem that serverless solves?
What does it promise and what does it actually deliver?
Infinite scalability? It only solves the easiest part of it.
Cost reduction? As you seem to admit, generally this is only true at small scale.
Security updates? Fair enough, but this has never been the real problem. If you're at a point where security updates are that important you will unlikely leave them in the hands of a third party.
My bet is that what you're attributing to the benefits of serverless are not inherent to the serverless itself and are just benefits of infrastructure built around it.