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I strongly recommend never using functions as a service unless you genuinely have some client edge compute requirement that absolutely cannot be solved via some other means.<p>Everything about running software is made more difficult this way. You might think it would make certain infrastructure aspects easier, but it just changes the semantics of the same problem. It's the same quantity of mess to clean up, but now it's in these really weird piles that are often much harder to access.<p>> up to 128 concurrent requests per environment<p>I am fairly confident I could support more capacity with a single t3a.nano instance.
I seem to have had the opposite experience. Using Lambda (I can't speak for many of the other FaaS platforms) is so straightforward to me that there need to be some strong arguments for hosting code/containers in my projects.<p>My guess is that the IaC is the special sauce that's missing; you do need to go all in with some IaC solution to make using Lambda easy, but it doesn't take a lot of it to make it slick.<p>Cost/compute is obviously strictly worse for FaaS, but most web workloads don't _really_ need to be optimal.
Finally Lambda without the adapter layer.. Now please add .NET and Java with those concurrent requests
Being able to handle concurrent requests with one worker is nice. I hope this becomes available for Python too.
How is this different from a container?
looks like an answer to Cloudflare Workers
Isn't this a move in the other direction. Workers and traditional Lambda need to you write short lived event handlers; this is about running a standard server.
And appengine
Also vercel, railway, render etc<p>Cloudflare workers wasn’t always an 1:1 option for simple hosting (iirc) and people used to think it was more complicated than vercel etc but it has changed in recent years and right now they have made things smoother and simpler to compete with vercel and others.<p>Now that AWS has entered into the field as well, given that vercel and others already build on top of AWS. It will be interesting to see how this all goes.<p>I wonder if more og hyper scalers like say hetzner/ovh and others will also target this audience
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