Andreas Sieferlinger

For most of my career, I have been on call for the systems I built. This experience forged my strong affinity for technologies that have less runtime complexity. That's why I'm so into serverless. Assuming that complexity cannot be destroyed and can only be moved around. I much prefer technologies with less operational complexity (think patching AMIs, updating RDS versions, replacing failed nodes, etc.), even if it comes at the expense of higher author-time complexity. That's why I prefer DynamoDB over RDS. Even though DynamoDB is rather restrictive and makes many things hard to implement. That's why I prefer Lambda over running containers. Even though running applications in containers still provides a better developer experience. My choices are not absolute. It always depends on the context. And what I'd do myself is often different from what I'd advise my clients. Because they have different skill sets and must operate within some time and budget constraints. But if it's a system that I need to maintain, then there must be a lot of upside to tip me over the fence. Of course, your mileage might differ, but that's just me.