> It's interesting to see the heavily growing demand graph. Is that because people want to adopt it, or is it being mandated or encouraged as "best practice" etc?
FaaS is well justified from the point of view of an infrastructure provider. You get far better utilization from your hardware with a tradeoff of a convoluted software architecture and development model.
In theory you also get systems that are easier to manage as you don't have teams owning deployments from the OS and up, nor do they have to bother with managing their scaling needs.
It also makes sense in the technical side because when a team launches a service, 90% of the thing is just infrastructure code that needs to be in place to ultimately implement request handlers.
If that's all your team needs, why not get that redundancy out of the way?
Nevertheless we need to keep things in perspective, and avoid this FANG-focused cargo cult idiocy of mindlessly imitating any arbitrary decision regardless of making sense. FaaS makes sense if you are the infrastructure provider, and only if you have a pressing need to squeeze every single drop of utilization from your hardware. If your company does not fit this pattern, odds are you will be making a huge mistake by mimicking this decision.
FaaS is well justified from the point of view of an infrastructure provider. You get far better utilization from your hardware with a tradeoff of a convoluted software architecture and development model.
In theory you also get systems that are easier to manage as you don't have teams owning deployments from the OS and up, nor do they have to bother with managing their scaling needs.
It also makes sense in the technical side because when a team launches a service, 90% of the thing is just infrastructure code that needs to be in place to ultimately implement request handlers.
If that's all your team needs, why not get that redundancy out of the way?
Nevertheless we need to keep things in perspective, and avoid this FANG-focused cargo cult idiocy of mindlessly imitating any arbitrary decision regardless of making sense. FaaS makes sense if you are the infrastructure provider, and only if you have a pressing need to squeeze every single drop of utilization from your hardware. If your company does not fit this pattern, odds are you will be making a huge mistake by mimicking this decision.