June 29, 2023

K8s vs serverless for distributed systems

47 minutes

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 – GitHub, X
Abdel Sghiouar – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Srdjan Petrovic – X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X

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!

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