rakyll: Serverless works until your workload diverges from the baseline assumptions
rakyll · x · 2026-10-01
Engineer rakyll argues that serverless fundamentally means servers are managed for you based on baseline assumptions. It's extremely convenient for typical use cases, but once your workload diverges from that baseline, you'll eventually need to migrate your service — probably in an online fashion.
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