When I first started working on this project API Gateway was an “easy choice” because our infrastructure was kind of a mess and this tool was going to be in part monitoring our clients and our web stack.
Once operationally we had solid footing on kubernetes it was a no brainer that it would be better served there, especially since the usage had gone way beyond what I could have imagined.
I think serverless architectures are still good solutions for certain problems and for people coming out of boot camps that want to build something, but don’t have necessarily have the experience to run their own servers.
There are other products popping up everywhere. kubeless, fission, and knative are great ways to get that functionality for cheap in your own k8s cluster, but there are other tools with great developer experiences like Zeit that solve the same problem asf APIGW+Lamba for what I believe is much cheaper (at least when I looked as a potential solution vs. running in elixir).
Happy to answer any questions!
