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Depends on your use case. Certain parts of the app fit the bill really well.

Just yesterday i put the 'dnspython' module behind a google cloud function and all it took was 5 minutes and i had a REST interface to query MX records. It's great for small little use cases like that.

Another use case might be a simple webhook, where you're receiving pings from an external service and all the serverless function does is save it to a DB and maybe trigger another task for it.

In cases like this you can skip a lot of the devops boilerplate and reduce it a single file containing your function and perhaps a requirements.txt(or whatever manages your dependencies)




It would also be really simple to sftp a single application to a /cgi-bin/ directory on a shared web host. You don't need to know anything except STDIN and STDOUT, and none of that CI/CD or VCS boilerplate to worry about. Instant web applications. It'd probably be much simpler than using Lambda.

I don't have anything against FaaS as a concept, but it almost always leads to crappy operation. The simplest examples of it working are crowded out by the attempts that ended up redesigned as normal applications.


Genuinely interested to hear/read these use cases. I'm using a serverless stack at the moment (AWS Api GW + Lambda), and after the initial headaches of wrestling with Cloudformation it's been relatively simple and performant




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