I meant to say this in another post I saw the other day about serverless. Serverless is mostly hyped up by marketing sure. But the benefit is not in just running a Function as a Service.
The real gem of Serverless is that if you're using a cloud say for example Microsoft Azure (I'm just more familiar with their offering) you can have events triggered when: a new file/blob is added to your Azure Blob Storage. Another case and I know there's likely a none cloudy way of doing this: when new records are inserted into a database you can run a function. It's cronjobs on crack that will only fail in your code usually, I've never seen a failure of an Azure Function getting triggered, can't speak to other cloud providers offerings.
Yes I agree, it's a lot of marketing hype, and it's even dumber IMHO that they emphasize on the RESTful aspects, and not the useful cronjob like aspects that save you time on figuring out when and how to work on something as it hits your cloud.
The real gem of Serverless is that if you're using a cloud say for example Microsoft Azure (I'm just more familiar with their offering) you can have events triggered when: a new file/blob is added to your Azure Blob Storage. Another case and I know there's likely a none cloudy way of doing this: when new records are inserted into a database you can run a function. It's cronjobs on crack that will only fail in your code usually, I've never seen a failure of an Azure Function getting triggered, can't speak to other cloud providers offerings.
Yes I agree, it's a lot of marketing hype, and it's even dumber IMHO that they emphasize on the RESTful aspects, and not the useful cronjob like aspects that save you time on figuring out when and how to work on something as it hits your cloud.