Reply to post: Re: Is it just me

Just when you thought it was safe to go ahead with microservices... along comes serverless

xeroks

Re: Is it just me

"Or is 'serverless' just microservices but using a vendor-specific framework?"

Kind of. Microservices I've used have still been billed by the server. You can add scale-out rules - e.g. if your servers are at 80% capacity, then fire up an extra one. So you tend to specify the smallest, cheapest servers you can, automatically add more when you need them, and shut them down when you don't.

The serverless paradigm means you don't bother with that. You have 100 requests? You get charged for the processing required for those 100 requests.

I've not looked into what control you have over those tasks - you must be able to throttle them in the case of an exceptional number coming in at the same time.

As far as vendor-lock in is concerned, they're all at it. Microsoft's service fabric is a powerful framework for microservices, and while you're not totally locked into Azure, you are tied into Microsoft.

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