Serverless functions - overrared? What do you think?

Gogol · Nov 19, 2022

I mean, first of all, they can have cold starts, which sucks. Then they can be costly, and can potentially ruin your business. But I still see many companies and known teams/devs using them. What is your opinion on this?

I think the cold start could be absorbed by having another proxy server that caches the request, but why not just have that proxy server fetch your data then?

yogib34r · Nov 19, 2022

I want to like them especially as it seems to be the way the industry is moving but I can't help but think why am I bothering I can just do x,y,z but then I worry I'm becoming an old stale fart.

Walterwhit · Nov 19, 2022

cloudflare workers might change your opinion.

Dopious · Nov 20, 2022

I voted yes, because of the possibility to run stuff scalable near customers on the edge. But who am I to judge the mighty Gogol, sorry .. =( Cloudflare and Bunny are really good to sell their on-the-edge stuff .. And I am a sucker for this as a non-hardcore-coder. If I had the cash I would already bought their stuff.

Please mighty Gogol lord, tell me not to buy in to this .. =)

lucky.sparks · Nov 20, 2022

Walterwhit said:
cloudflare workers might change your opinion.

This.

I'm now building half of my web stuff using cloudflare workers and it's amazing.

Gogol · Nov 20, 2022

Walterwhit said:
cloudflare workers might change your opinion.

lucky.sparks said:
This.

I'm now building half of my web stuff using cloudflare workers and it's amazing.

Hmmm I have used cf workers in past for password protection but never really looked into them for serverless. I was looking into vercel serverless functions. Pricing for cf seems to be ok. How bad is the cold start?

Walterwhit · Nov 20, 2022

Gogol said:
Hmmm I have used cf workers in past for password protection but never really looked into them for serverless. I was looking into vercel serverless functions. Pricing for cf seems to be ok. How bad is the cold start?

20ms, it is hardly noticeable

Gogol · Dec 2, 2022

a friendly bump

I don’t want to believe only 5-10 people here use js stacks. Where are you guys and girls?

vccresellerpanel · Dec 2, 2022

for serverless i am using cloudflare pages, but still need huge improvement on their systems,

Serverless functions - overrared? What do you think?

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