Serverless Mico-Saas?
With serverless functions seemingly becoming a new buzzword, how many of you are building with serverless functions on platforms like Google Functions or AWS Lamba out of the box? Or do you find yourself starting off with a more traditional, encapsulated architecture, and then moving serverless as time progresses or the requirements of your projects expand?
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Starting serverless. Once you know how it works it’s just as fast or faster to get started than booting up a VM. I use firebase and Google Cloud Functions and the integration via GCP is super smooth.
Awesome! Why did you choose to Google or AWS? You preferred the flavor or was there a more specific reason?
I'm not the OP but I chose Google because I simply like their product suite - I started learning to code using Google Apps Script and I use Firebase as my db which, like OP says, integrates nicely with Cloud Functions.
AppReviewBot has been 100% serverless since launch a couple of years ago.
From a cost perspective, it has been great!
Love the stack! I've built my latest side project using the same environment except using Amplify to abstract S3/Cloudfront. I can see the power.
I love the serverless paradigm. It’s what I know best. So for me I definitely choose to build serverless from the get go on any new projects.
That said, a lot of people know Ruby on Rails best, or traditional servers, and it makes sense that they should start with that instead if learning new tech that is designed to handle scale challenges.
I do think that most things can be built serverless nowadays and as long as you can deal with cold and other various drawbacks, it’s great not to have to worry about managing the servers.
Sheetson.com is built serverless on Vercel. Best of all, they offer free invocations, so that's why there's no limit on our free plan.