With Firebase if I need a new env I just type 1 command and get it.
With VMs I have the joy of managing my own keys.
VMs need security patches, updates, and I have to maintain images. I have to think.
It is hard to explain how simple firebase functions are.
There is literally no mental overhead. There is no worrying. There is nothing to maintain or think about, no settings up quotas or managing what machine something is running on or getting user auth setup. No certs that can expire or daemons that can crash.
I can come back 2 months later and count on everything I setup functioning just as I left it.
Some months I wrote a bunch of endpoints, I average 2 a month maybe, but if I am adding a new feature, I can pop out 3 or 4 a day, and then go on my way and work with the front end again.
Getting debugging up and running for them can be interesting (painful and bad), but everything else is just smooth.
I don't want to maintain a bunch of infrastructure, I want my users to ask for some data and get some data back.
If someone is doing non-trivial processing, serverless is probably not for them. But I have a bunch of 20-50 line functions that are all independent of each other and have 0 state.
I realize I'm paying a premium, but it is worth it to have this stuff that just works.
Ah ok so you're 100% serverless so functions are saving you all the headaches of running your own infra? That makes sense. It sounded like the time to add an endpoint was your main criteria and just seemed strange.
