From the course: Cloud Native Projects: GCP Serverless
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Serverless risks - Google Cloud Platform Tutorial
From the course: Cloud Native Projects: GCP Serverless
Serverless risks
- [Instructor] As with all technology, there is no silver bullet. Serverless has some risks that need to be evaluated before making the jump to it as a technology choice for your institution. First and foremost, we need to talk about costs. Now, heavy workloads in a serverless environment can actually cost more than running a VM, even when that VM has those peaks and valleys that we talked about. It's hard sometimes to get a true picture of cost effectiveness in a serverless model because of this. Now, designing with serverless may hide some efficiencies that you could gain from a cost perspective. So let's take a look at the example of where we're running multiple serverless functions against a single trigger. Could we achieve the same thing by fanning that trigger out and actually reducing our costs in a traditional VM environment? Another risk that comes with serverless is the inability to do proper debugging.…
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