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Listener Joe Davidson recently tweeted: “I’d really be interested in an episode debating Kubernetes vs serverless functions for distributed systems. As someone working a lot with serverless to create large scale systems, for me the complexity in Kubernetes doesn’t seem worth it, especially when onboarding new people. But I’d like to see it from the other perspectives. I could be missing something.” So we invited Joe on the show alongside Abdel Sghiouar and Srdjan Petrovic to discuss!

Listener Joe Davidson recently tweeted: “I’d really be interested in an episode debating Kubernetes vs serverless functions for distributed systems. As someone working a lot with serverless to create large scale systems, for me the complexity in Kubernetes doesn’t seem worth it, especially when onboarding new people. But I’d like to see it from the other perspectives. I could be missing something.”


So we invited Joe on the show alongside Abdel Sghiouar and Srdjan Petrovic to discuss!

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Featuring:


Joe Davidson – Twitter, GitHubAbdel Sghiouar – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInSrdjan Petrovic – TwitterNatalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:



Cncf landscape
Article: Shifting left is for suckers. Shift down instead
Service Weaver
Firebase
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized world
CloudRun
Knative
Fargate
Dapr
Azure Container Apps
Kelsey Hightower’s Tweet on k8s becoming an operating system for the cloud

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Twitter Mentions