There has been so much stuff written online about serverless that you are probably already sick of reading about it by now. I mean, it’s a great technology but is it deserving of all the buzzing going around the tech industry? Traditional servers have been around for years and you know what, they will continue to play an incremental role in the development of thousands and thousands of apps and website in the future.

So how come so many people are flocking towards the new paradigm of hosting and running APIs? Why would you even consider making such an important switch and what should you expect?

But why you ask?

The cost

If you stick long enough doing this while development thing you’ll eventually get to see an infrastructure that’s so huge and complex that costs over $5K/month. Or $20K. Or $100K/mo. You get the point. Hosting your own services is expensive. Sometime you’ll hear someone saying that having the servers on-premise will cost less but let’s face it, you’ll end up saving 10 or 15% but you will end up being directly responsible for every single aspect of that, from hardware upgrades, security issues, the team that manages those servers.

With Serverless, all you’ll end up paying is for the actual invocation, no need to worry about the management, security, updates, hardware. All of that is handled by your provider. Furthermore, when nobody is using your service or website you don’t pay anything, this in contrast with your traditional way that server works where you pay the same amount of money regardless if you have 100 K users online or 0. To read more about how companies are saving money with serverless you can check out our blog

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