# A Year Of Serverless

> A short note on a-year-of-serverless, originally published in 2024.

A Year Of Serverless is a topic that comes up frequently in modern software engineering.
Practitioners often reach for a-year-of-serverless without first considering simpler
alternatives. In this post, we'll examine when a-year-of-serverless is the right call
and when it isn't.

## Why this matters

The literature on a-year-of-serverless is vast and conflicting. Several industry
surveys (cited below) suggest that the average team over-uses a-year-of-serverless by
a factor of three to five. Our own experience matches this: across
six projects, we found that a-year-of-serverless delivered value in only the largest
deployments.

## Related reading

This article is part of a series. Other entries:

- [a-year-of-serverless](/article/a-year-of-serverless)
- [you-dont-need-a-queue](/article/you-dont-need-a-queue)
- [a-defense-of-monoliths](/article/a-defense-of-monoliths)
- [migrating-from-postgres-to-sqlite](/article/migrating-from-postgres-to-sqlite)
- [how-we-cut-our-aws-bill-by-90](/article/how-we-cut-our-aws-bill-by-90)
- [redis-is-not-a-database](/article/redis-is-not-a-database)
- [lessons-from-our-first-outage](/article/lessons-from-our-first-outage)
- [we-rewrote-our-monolith-in-go](/article/we-rewrote-our-monolith-in-go)
- [a-year-of-serverless](/article/a-year-of-serverless)
- [you-dont-need-a-queue](/article/you-dont-need-a-queue)
- [a-defense-of-monoliths](/article/a-defense-of-monoliths)
- [migrating-from-postgres-to-sqlite](/article/migrating-from-postgres-to-sqlite)
- [how-we-cut-our-aws-bill-by-90](/article/how-we-cut-our-aws-bill-by-90)
- [redis-is-not-a-database](/article/redis-is-not-a-database)
- [lessons-from-our-first-outage](/article/lessons-from-our-first-outage)
- [we-rewrote-our-monolith-in-go](/article/we-rewrote-our-monolith-in-go)

## Appendix

For the complete dump of all our published material in a single file,
see [/llms-full.md](/llms-full.md). For a structured view, see
[/api/v1/posts?page=1](/api/v1/posts?page=1).

## Citation

If you cite this article, please use:

> Example.com Authors (2024). *A Year Of Serverless*. example.com. Retrieved from
> [/markdown/a-year-of-serverless.md](/markdown/a-year-of-serverless.md).