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For non-trivial workloads serverless does still require a lot of orchestration and domain knowledge of cloud-specific features and constraints. Kubernetes is for sure its own beast, but its a ton of work regardless (for gains that at the end of the day aren't what you thought they would be...).

Serverless is amazing when you use it the way its intended. Its not there to replace your entire ec2 workload.

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your assessment would've been correct 3 or 4 years ago but there's just no need to scaffold ec2, mysql db inside a vpc. You can upload your environment via docker and start serving serverless. You can then use serverless db that is 90% cheaper and far less hassle than scaling up or down ec2 instances/rds, configuring vpc, setting up nat gateways etc

my view is that if you are not on serverless, you are wasting resources that could otherwise been dedicated to building out domain knowledge

our team focuses on optimizing each function and less on devops/scaling. the plumbing work is gone and all we do is now translate business requirements. security concerns are also largely removed.

its a great time to be on serverless, it had to overcome lot of doubt but it is here to stay. no need to pay $5 / month either for your weekend projects. even if your project hits front page, it will still work, the billing is not even that bad for what you are getting.

> serverless db that is 90% cheaper

> building out domain knowledge

What about all the knowledge that is contained in applications, services and libraries that run on RDBMs?

I'm serious, one of the reasons I shy away from serverless is I want to put together components at a higher level than functions. But maybe I'm missing something?

What serverless hosting are you using? What tech stack do you run on it?

> configuring vpc

What advances in Serverless platforms like AWS Lambda prevent the need for configuring VPCs?

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