This is a brief attempt to obliterate 5 useless Serverless tropes. I used Yan Cui’s “ ” as an outline but this is not directed at them personally. Enjoy the 🔥. Not so FaaS Trope #1 “FaaS is limited therefore Serverless is” One could be forgiven for thinking Serverless is merely functions-as-a-service… 3 years ago. It’s time to stop equating the limitations of FaaS with the limitations of Serverless. Far too many sharp tweets and good articles exist on this subject for this kind of fake news to go unpunished. For the laggards, once again, here’s Ben Kehoe on the subject. A dab of Simon Wardley for good measure. Trope #2 “Serverless is not a silver bullet” Why bloggers feel the need to concern-troll their readers with this crap is beyond me. Regale us with tales of how “Serverless does, in fact, use servers!” Water is wet. Name a technology that a silver bullet. Then recognize your folly for even trying and kindly go read “ ” by Fred Brooks. Yes, Fred Brooks. is No Silver Bullet that Trope #3 “Serverless is for batch operations” or “Serverless is not for persistent connections” - . Wrong a gain bucko Trope #4 “Cold starts are bad m’kay” News flash: container starts aren’t instantaneous. If you manage your resources as close to the bone as Lambda does your fancy Kubernetes architecture will experience cold starts too. In fact, if you aren’t experiencing cold starts as you scale, you are probably . paying-for-idle I’m looking forward to all the “We Picked Kubernetes Cuz Cold Starts and Now We Regret It” posts on Medium in the years to come. Trope #5 “Serverless isn’t for high throughput” There’s this thing called . There’s this language called . Kinesis Go Fin Simon Wardley with the mic 🎤 drop.

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