Why I Still Like Serverless for Small Teams
Serverless has real tradeoffs, but for small teams I still think it usually wins. The operational overhead stays low, the first version ships faster, and the mistakes are easier to afford early on.
Engineering notes from the sharp end
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wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Programming, Software Engineer
I still like serverless, but the tradeoff is obvious when something breaks at 2 a.m. The architecture is easy to ship and harder to reason about when you need logs, context, and a fast path to the real failure.
Software Engineer, Work
Clients do not really need a consultant who just says clever technical things. They need someone who can reduce risk, create clarity, and help them make better decisions.
Programming, Software Engineer
A legacy system is not dangerous just because it is old. It becomes dangerous when nobody can change it safely, nobody can see what it is doing, and the business depends on it anyway.
AI, Software Engineer
AI can generate code faster, but that only makes direction, judgment, and accountability more important. Senior engineers still matter because the expensive mistakes are rarely typing mistakes.
Programming, Software Engineer
Most rewrite discussions are really a sign that the team is frustrated, not that a full rebuild is the smartest technical decision. In most cases, incremental change is the better call.
AI, Software Engineer
AI tooling is not going away. What a lot of people are calling a bubble looks more like denial in the face of tools that are already becoming normal developer infrastructure.
Programming
TypeScript 6.0 matters, but TypeScript 7.0 looks like the real shift. The native compiler work is the part I think most teams should actually care about.
PHP, Programming
PHP 8.5.4 is a bug-fix release, not a feature release. If you are already on PHP 8.5, you should update. If you are still on 8.4, this alone is not the reason to jump.
Programming, Support
TypeScript 6.0 is now live, but the main story is not flashy syntax. It is the upgrade work you should do now before TypeScript 7 lands.