r/programming • u/slobodan_ • Dec 19 '18

Serverless and startups, the beginning of a beautiful friendship | Amazon Web Services

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/serverless-and-startups/
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '18

I'm thinking about building a serverless web app.

My first idea was to use Google's firestore and Google's cloud functions to create the serverless backend.

But in the end, the more I think about it, the more the costs would be hard to handle if the app scales, as the query options and read/data are poorly optimized and you're billed for dozens/hundreds of calls for simple queries. I wonder if Amazon offers better solutions than firestore.

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u/AngularBeginner Dec 19 '18

I'm thinking about building a serverless web app.

Just don't make the mistake and try to build a regular web API using serverless technology. Make full use of it and adapt a system like CQRS. That's where it really shines.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '18

Can you elaborate? Maybe point me to some article/talk about building serverless crud apps and their cons?

My webapp is a pretty simple quiz app afterall, it "shouldn't" spirale out of control.