Serverless is for Everyone!

Serverless typecasting

A typical busy day at the office. Home office, that is. I was due to join a serverless webinar at 12 noon. It’s now 20 minutes past. I continued my conversation with my colleagues, Russ and Fabi. We wrapped up in the next 5 minutes and I then joined the webinar.

The talk that I wanted to attend was about comparing serverless with a particular container technology. The good, the bad, the ugly, the strength, the weakness and the fitness of those two different technologies. The talk was concluding as I joined and caught the last few words of encouragement from the speaker on serverless. A mundane, off-the-shelf recommendation that we’ve been hearing since the birth of the term serverless. “Serverless is good for start-ups. Serverless is fit for background processing. Serverless is ideal for batch jobs”. Just like me, I am sure you’ve also heard this typecasting many times.

On a spiky day at the office

The conversation I was having with Russ and Fabi was around few monitoring dashboard charts. Here is the one at the centre of our discussion.