UsecasesAsynchronous, concurrent, infrequent, in sporadic demand, unpredictable variance in scaling requirements, stateless, ephemeral, and highly dynamic Examples: Image/video processing, CICD, event streaming
Benefits You are free from: server provisioning, maintenance, updates, scaling and capacity planning When not to use?- There is a lack of standardization and interoperability between cloud providers that may lead to vendor lock-in – CNCF
- Aniszczyk explained serverless is not a good option for users that are looking at startup time and performance or trying to avoid being locked into a specific cloud platform provider.
- Long running work loads
- If you need advanced monitoring
- Latency due to cold start [Download code, Start container, Bootstrap the runtime], then hot start [Start your code]
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