Exploring serverless functions, SQL, and the cloud

Viktor Farcic: How do you load-test serverless functions?

Sean Hull: You're paying every time that function is called, so do you really want to load-test it on a hundred thousand customers? I don't know. Then, there are timeout questions. You have resource limitations across your AWS account, so maybe you're going to hit a wall because you can only run a certain number of Lambda functions for the month, or you have 10 Lambda functions, and one function runs off the rails, which then takes all the other ones offline because you've hit some resource limit.

I think that there are still things to manage, for sure. I think that DevOps, infrastructure as code, and serverless have changed the nature of systems administration, site reliability engineers, and operational engineers. It changes their day-to-day jobs, but I still think there's a lot of work to do.

"DevOps, infrastructure as...