we leverage serverless and s3 based architecture for much lower costs. However, it's applies for any application, not just for serverless applications.
Your costs and deployment pattern are your problem, customers don’t care about them.
Saying it is serverless means nothing to customers unless the serverless aspect applies to them, which in this case it doesn’t. If you’re only selling access to your product for a fee, then whether it’s serverless or not, customers couldn’t care less.
We actually started with "reduce your costs by 3-10x with infinite scalability" without talking about storing in s3 and serverless (along the lines of your thinking - only talk about benefits + what you do). But our users, engineers by their very nature, were skeptical about how Oodle works, so we ended up settling on a combination of why, what and how. This resonated better with our early customers and prospects.
I’m currently at a place using microservices, in a monorepo, where business logic is executed in consuming services, and some business logic is in a monolithic graphql layer, that only frontend clients call. Tries all the tricks, fails at all of them.
Still, it’s a profitable business. The dirty truth is that the current crop of engineers are the ones paying with their blood, sweat and tears - and I’m not sure about you, but that’s not what I signed up for as a software engineer, so we should demand better.
Anecdotally, my ex-wife suffered from CFS. She’d get bouts whenever she needed to do something she didn’t particularly want to do, to the point of predictability. She’d lost all ability to challenge her response to these kinds of situations.
It’s interesting to me when a religious group (especially one believing in the “Unity of God”) excludes others based on their ethnicity.
The question that sits in the back of my mind is: why?
These thoughts often lead me to wonder if they might be protecting something precious that they have from others, or whether they could be protecting others from the thing that they have.
Of course it may be neither of these, but it’s just an interesting thought.
A Druze person I know explained it to me effectively as a "you missed your chance" situation. To them, everyone had a chance to convert a long time ago (Wikipedia says it was in the year 1017), and if your family didn't convert back then, too bad.
> And if any good thing came of it, why not just omnipotence that thing into existence and skip the hard stuff?
I have an answer for you. The tl;dr is that it’s not about the result, but read on.
So the outcome isn’t the reason. How do I know? Time isn’t a thing for God - he can skip to the end. God can have any state he desires, in an instant. Yet he is here through us.
But why? We’ll answer this from two sides, first: why not? You’re infinite and can have literally everything, everywhere, all at once, in fact, you don’t even know what sensations are, so what else are you going to do? Think about that for a moment. You’re infinite. You’re the king with untold riches.
Bearing that context in mind: why? The answer is the same. Because you’re a single infinite being. You can literally have everything, everywhere, all at once. God isn’t good or evil. He is good and evil. So as an infinite being, what don’t you have? Limitations, form (a limitation) and friends (someone that’s not you, because you’re it - the beginning and end). So this - _is_ the why. Why God did this. So that is to say that we’re all God, experiencing limitation, form and companionship. And to keep the illusion going, God has to hide the ultimate secret truth from himself: that he is infinite, that he has everything, everywhere, all at once.
But here we are trapped on a lonely planet with finite potential in a seemingly infinite box called space. Here, we are, experiencing _this_, feeling, sensing, solitude, companionship, separation, union, pain, joy. We experience who we are, because God has temporarily forgotten his infinity.
