Wouldn't it be ideal if Docker (and other independent platform vendors) added function support? In my mind "cloud functions" are easily implemented on top of containers. Then we would get the best of both worlds.
I've had to answer many questions about delays in serverless functions that didn't come up with Docker. Serverless doesn't have the introspection necessary to answer performance questions.
What if Docker supported functions? I'd ask what we gain trading a main loop for only bindings. Similar bindings are made either way.
I honestly wish cloud providers would make their core SDKs as easily composable as their serverless offerings.
Exactly. This is the goal of http://FnProject.io -- power of containers + simplicity of serverless. No managed service yet but there will be, and anyone can run the bits to create a service of their own.
I do agree with Paul about containers having a greater update surface area, but we think this is also solvable and doesn't need to be a responsibility of the developer either.
