https://blog.rickwaterman.com/tags/serverless/Recent content in Serverless on BlogHugoen-USTue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.rickwaterman.com/posts/vercel-is-great-for-frontend-teams/Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.rickwaterman.com/posts/vercel-is-great-for-frontend-teams/Vercel’s developer experience is the best in the business, and for a frontend team without cloud depth it is the right call. But if your organization already has AWS CDK or Terraform specialization, you are paying a markup on Lambda and CloudFront for an abstraction you do not need, with spend controls that lag, private networking behind an Enterprise contract, and a self-hosting story that has finally caught up.https://blog.rickwaterman.com/posts/boring-managed-services-win/Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.rickwaterman.com/posts/boring-managed-services-win/Every queue, scheduler, or database you run yourself spends an innovation token on something your customers will never notice. Managed AWS services are boring in the best sense: their failure modes are documented, their metrics ship by default, and the toil they remove is the toil nobody measures.