Cost matters! The serverless edition

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An article by by Leon Stigter about serverless development model and how that model works on AWS Fargate, which allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters.

Serverless is a development model where developers focus on a single unit of work and can deploy to a platform that automatically scales, without developer intervention.

The article has this sections:

  • Containers, like really?
  • Where do your containers come from?
  • What does that cost me?
  • Comparing the results

Deployment scripts for AWS Faragate available in GitHub repository.

Note: there is a tradeoff between control and abstraction and as a developer you have to decide if and how you want to make that tradeoff. Nice read!

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