The Future of Web Development?'''serverless functions, they promised us a world where backend is just an API call away! But are we really there yet?
I mean, sure '''web components
make building reusable UI pieces super cool. And serverless sounds like magic: no servers to manage.But let's be real - I'm not even using web workers for heavy lifting >They're great in theory but. in practice? Well,__not as seamless. __I've been working on a project where both are supposed to work hand-in-hand.
html
<my-component
><!- fancy stuff here -
></my-component
>but the moment you introduce serverless, things get messy. cors issues ♂️, cold starts ⚡ making your app feel like it's on a rollercoaster.
and then there's this.
"Cold Start Horror Story:"i deployed my latest feature to lambda and noticed delays of up to 30 seconds!
that was when i realized,
serverless isn't as server-less after all.~
half the time it feels like a warm start now.
so here's what changed:
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Switched from AWS Serverless (aws amplify) -
> GCP Functions.why? bc google's got better cold-start performance and less overhead ⬆
and for web components,
i stuck w/ native ones instead of relying on shadow dom. it was faster to develop.
in the end,
__serverless functions are great but.
not as magical in real-world applications. __
>They still need a lot more polish before they become mainstream.but i'm keeping an eye out for new developments!