Don't balk at the cost - start with a serverless solution that scales
November 21, 2018
Don't balk at the cost - start with a serverless solution that scales
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with AWS Lambda
AWS Lambdas are the true workhorses powering our ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load), Data Warehouse, and Business Intelligence solution. We integrate with dozens of registration platforms and third-party services, loading fully normalized customer data into RDS and Redshift, enabling machine learning, forecasting, CRM, marketing automation, business intelligence, and performance monitoring.
- It scales endlessly. We chose AWS's serverless architecture specifically for its ability to start small and scale as needed.
- Its always available. AWS's geographic redundancy and serverless architecture mean there's no server downtime. Ever.
- From a PM's perspective, there's a learning curve. We've had to either hire out experience engineers, or absorb the not-insignificant orientation of not-yet-initiated engineers. But I suppose the same is true of anything.
- Positive: Our tech stack is positioned to scale endlessly, which is imperative to what we're trying to accomplish
- Negative: It's more expensive than building application services from scratch on rented servers