Serverless promises on-demand, optimal performance for a fixed cost. Yet, we see that the current serverless platforms do not always hold up this promise in practice; serverless applications can suffer from platform overhead, unreliable performance, “cold starts”, and more.
In his talk at JAX DevOps 2019, Erwin van Eyk reviewed optimizations used in popular FaaS platforms and went over some recent research findings that aim to optimize the trade-off between cost and performance.
After his informative session, JAXenter assistant editor Eirini-Eleni Papadopoulou caught up with him and talked about some common pitfalls of serverless, common misconceptions, the current state of the technology and more.
Here are some quotes from the interview:
- The serverless principles, separating the business logic from the operation logic, we see it happening with containers right now.
- Since serverless is cheap and you can just deploy a function easily and tear it down again, it provides you with a lot of opportunities to experiment.
- The serverless world, in general, is very immature and the downsides are there especially when you are running your functions at scale.
- Serverless is not perfect for all applications. There is a small field of applications that very clearly benefit from serverless but there is also a big gray area of services for which serverless is not quite ready yet.
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