Serverless is Interesting But FaaS is Not Enough

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Argues that FaaS alone can’t build general-purpose, low-latency stateful apps and demonstrates a Kubernetes/Knative proof-of-concept that attaches an Akka sidecar per function to provide addressable, long‑lived virtual entities with cluster sharding and sticky routing. Uses event sourcing (durable append-only logs with snapshotting) and CRDTs for high-availability coordination, exposes state via gRPC, and aims to scale from zero to tens of thousands of requests while preserving locality and resilience.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:45Reactive Systems THE RULES OF THE GAME HAVE CHANGED
3. 10:28USE-CASES FOR FAAS?
4. 11:49FAAS? Hard to build general-purpose applications
5. 23:52Event Sourced Functions
6. 26:55Serverless Event Sourcing

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