Level 3: Distributed systems · L3.5 Monolith vs microservices, serverless
Serverless trade-offs
Evaluate serverless for cost, cold starts and lock-in.
11 min · Pro
What you take away
- Per-request pricing wins decisively for spiky or low traffic and loses at sustained high volume — there is a crossover worth estimating.
And 3 more inside the class, in Pro.
How the class is laid out
- The problem
- Monolith first
- Boundaries
- Strangler fig
- Serverless
- Check your understanding