Lambda is 5 year old technology. This is like arguing in 2011 that startups shouldn’t use EC2, because it’s “risky”.

The technology age isn’t the issue. The issue is how many projects have successfully deployed large scale reliable systems built with Lambda.

The internet is full of success stories if you care to look. My favorites:

- iRobot (maker of Roomba) has been running its entire IoT stack serverless since 2016 (architect Ben Kehoe is a worthwhile follow on Twitter)

- Reddit’s video hosting service is built and operated by a single engineer on a serverless stack

Reddit’s self hosted video is terrible. Using them to advocate serverless is like using Twitter on the fail whale days to advocate Rails.

Thanks. This is good info.

Large scale reliable systems are antinomic with “launching a startup”. You’re going to go through 2 or 3 pivots and as many refactors, large scale is the last thing you want to optimize for.