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Yup, this is exactly my point. It's not the serverless architecture, something you set up on Hetzner yourself with OpenFaaS (https://github.com/openfaas/faas), that is to blame here but the insane pricing scheme for traffic.

> I’m of the opinion that lambda-as-in-serverless is an evil. Are there any other serverless solutions that you'd recommend? Maybe a more open cloud function solution that could also be self-hosted, should the need arise? As far as I know, OpenFaaS might serve that niche for some, though of course there will be no cloud solutions as large as Lambda available: https://github.com/openfaas/faas Also there used to be IronFunctions, but those seem basically abandoned at this point: https://github.com/iron-io/functions

The call for MIT / Apache 2.0 licensing at the end of the post was surprising, given the issues that the author outlined. Grafana and Minio have both moved to AGPL / dual licensing from permissive licenses to stimulate licensing sales and revenue. As the maintainer of OpenFaaS, it's been a struggle to correct the balance of corporations freeloading [0] vs. contributing code or finances. GitHub Sponsors has also given very mixed results [1] In the same week we saw the maintainer of a popular OSS work almost throw in the towel [2] After 5 years, we're starting to see customer interest in paying for OpenFaaS - but only by holding new features and enhancements back i.e. Open Core. There are still problems with this approach, and paying customers end up funding all the R&D required for the free users - amongst other things like competition fro

You can run kubeless on top of a self hosted Kubernetes cluster: https://kubeless.io/ Edit: googling it looks like kubeless is actually no longer under active development. There is also https://github.com/openfaas/faas

> In this post I’ll show you how to invoke your functions using Aiven’s managed Kafka service and the OpenFaaS PRO connector. A sample function and setup are included, so you can follow along with a free trial, or your existing Aiven account. The Kafka integration is part of the strategy to sustain openfaas in the long run, since most commercial users refuse to sponsor the project or support it in any other way, this offers them something of value that they can pay for, along with a few other features useful for companies: http://docs.openfaas.com/openfaas-pro/introduction/ https://github.com/openfaas/faas/blob/master/ADOPTERS.md

There is also OpenFAAS - built on top of k3s https://github.com/openfaas/faas

OpenFaaS has a rest API, so no that's not accurate - you can scale to zero and back again. You may have been "toying" - many people do, but here's some examples of end users https://www.github.com/openfaas/faas/tree/master/ADOPTERS.md faasd uses pausing of containers so there's barely a noticeable cold start unlike with Kubernetes where it can take a couple of seconds. Up until 2018 everyone just used a min scale of 1, and was very happy because it meant never having to bear a Kubernetes Pod being scheduled. This is one of the reasons that faasd is quicker - no distributed state to manage. Feel free to ask for help on Slack if you are unclear about scaling. I'm sure the community would be happy to help.

Did you try the docs, the blog or YouTube? You'll find plenty of information there. Feel free to start with https://github.com/openfaas/faas/blob/master/ADOPTERS.md https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt06Z28uzPA

I agree with your sentiments. I've found that OpenFaaS[1] has been nice to work with and you can deploy it wherever. [1] https://github.com/openfaas/faas

Yes, however with Kubernetes. The containerd project is brand-new. End-user community: https://www.openfaas.com/ End-user case-studies and KubeCon talks/recordings: https://www.openfaas.com/blog/kubecon-san-diego-highlights/ https://www.openfaas.com/blog/meet-us-at-barcelona/ Blog posts and meet-ups from the community over the past 3 years: https://github.com/openfaas/faas/blob/master/community.md