this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2024
519 points (96.8% liked)

> Greentext

7540 readers
3 users here now

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
519
Anon doesn't like serverless environments (feddit.nl)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
28 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Alt text:

be me

serverless supervisor

in charge of making sure the serverless environment is in fact, serverless

occasionally have to check if it's really serverless

one day, find out there are actual servers being used

serverless environment is no longer serverless

distress.jpg

ask my boss what to do

he says "just make it serverless again"

I say "how"

he says "I don't know, you're the supervisor"

rage.jpg

quit my job

become a servers supervisor

first day on the job, go to the new server room

it's empty, serverless

top 28 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 117 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fucking servers, how do they work

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago

Maybe, like magnets?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They work better if you don't fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Did this come from a series of AI generated green text? I seem to remember the story.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It was originally about bottomless pits iirc (and yeah, the poster claimed an AI wrote it)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

That's exactly what i remember yeah.

I actually think this version flows better

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Yeah, but it was a bottomless pit in the original.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

idk, I stole it from a Telegram channel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Appreciate the honesty!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Does serverless mean, you're hosting on someone else's servers?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Serverless usually means that the servers are 'hidden' from the user. You only get one shell, one desktop environment, but on the backend, your session might be split between multiple servers. Or it might not be. You, as the user, won't know. It is basically an abstraction layer between you and the servers themselves.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

To add, it is typically manifested as generic 'compute' or in the case of azure 'functions' where you environment the code is running on is abstracted away, instead you are just paying for compute, e.g. this function takes x time/cycles to run and so it costs y to run it each time.

In theory you don't need to worry about scale or anything, just deploy your function, and pay for what it uses.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Surely this will never come back to bite me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah better get really good at paying unexpectedly high invoices. Or if you want to know ahead of time what your costs will be, hire three specialists who will monitor your not servers as their full time job and make sure your „functions“ are not bankrupting you in a month. If you think you sleep too well, go serverless you’ll never sleep well again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

One Riker, one bridge!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Serverless means you don't have a server running 24/7 that's sitting idle waiting for requests. When a user makes a request on a webpage/app it'll run a short lived piece of code for a few dozen milliseconds then shuts off. No permanent "server" running. Of course there's servers running the code to start that function and usually a permanent database server but the main app/website code is running on demand only.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like the same result with extra steps?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's a few advantages. No server maintenance is one, but the main benefits are scalability and cost. Renting a server is expensive and is billed regardless of usage per month. Serverless is billed in 10 millisecond blocks so you only pay for each request essentially. Since it creates one compute function per request, it will more easily scale up to meet a surge of users. Of course with any trendy technology it can be misused to situations where it's not a good fit and lose the cost and scalability benefits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

You forgot the part where the provider of your serverless charges you a multiple of what your idling server would cost you.

It’s basically slicing up a server and selling you some slices at an exaggerated premium.

You spend more on supervising the stuff running on the slices so they don’t bankrupt you when a peak happens than you would for maintaining a server.

But hey, it’s fashionable to be serverless so let’s all do it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

so CGI

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yep. On someone else's big pool of servers.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Easy, find the guy stuck with your old job, offer to take those servers off his hands.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Skill issue. The servers are abstracted away. All you’ve gotta do is not open the black box and it’s still serverless.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Anon needs to reject technology and embrace luddism. Only then may he be free of oxymoron job roles.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They're invading

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

A little bit of water or a baseball bat would've saved his job