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Serverless Functions Post-Mortem

Serverless Functions Post-Mortem.
Around 2016, the term “serverless functions” started to take off in the tech industry. In short order, it was presented as the undeniable future of infrastructure. It’s the ultimate solution to redundancy, geographic resilience, load balancing and autoscaling. Never again would we need to patch, tweak or monitor an application.

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We stopped using AWS because of the cost. Going to the cloud as a default was a bad idea.

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