wg-serverless

Not ELI5 but see https://github.com/cncf/wg-serverless/tree/master/whitepaper... Some people go monolithic app but best practice is usually one function per route. Traditional servers come with management overhead (e.g. defining/managing/monitoring scaling) and by using Serverless servers you avoid that overhead and optimize for good engineers which are almost always your bigger cost center.

I totally agree a good successor to Heroku is missing. A lot of organizations tried (Google AppEngine, Pivotal Cloud Foundry). I think AppEngine failed because the security sandbox was pretty constraining and Pivotal was too expensive for most companies. With Kubernetes you can build the Platform as a Service (PaaS) on a shared Containers as a Service (CaaS) foundation (definitions are in https://github.com/cncf/wg-serverless/tree/master/whitepaper... ) You see multiple organizations trying this, Rancher 2.0 just got released, and we at GitLab just announced a partnership with Google's CaaS to make Auto DevOps more usable. Our goal with Auto DevOps over Heroku is: 1. Open source 2. Run anywhere you want (don't pay extra for compute) 3. Smooth graduation (no need to start from scratch when you need a customization) The biggest piece still

Just to be clear, membership in CNCF is not required to participate in any of our workgroups (including serverless [0]) or projects, such as Prometheus [1]. Disclosure: I'm executive director of CNCF. [0] https://github.com/cncf/wg-serverless [1] https://www.cncf.io/projects/

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has a serverless working group discussing the topic. Please peruse their docs and participate: https://github.com/cncf/wg-serverless (I'm the CNCF executive director.)