Serverless with Mama J — Why Serverless

<h2> Introduction </h2> <p>Serverless computing has become a buzzword in cloud architecture. But like any tool, it has sweet spots and sharp edges. After building and maintaining

<p>Have you ever clicked a button on a website, only to wait several agonizing seconds for the page to respond, even though it usually loads instantly? This annoying delay is

<p>We started the compute layer on Day 13 with EC2, ELB, and Auto Scaling — where you launch and manage everything yourself. Today we move one level up the abstraction ladder:

<p>I built Taskly about a year ago. Standard MERN stack, ran on a $10/month VPS with PM2 and nginx. It worked fine. Nobody was complaining.</p> <p>I migrated it to AWS serverless