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Serverless and the process lifecycle

Jun 10, 2026·4 min read
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The boring-plumbing philosophy still holds on serverless — you just lose one knob: you can’t rely on in-memory state surviving between invocations.

Push anything that needs to survive a cold start into a queue, a cache, or a database. The runtime was never yours to hold onto.

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Comments (4)

  • PS
    Priya S.2 days ago

    This matches how I think about our queue setup at work — appreciated the analogy.

  • MO
    Marcus O.2 days ago

    More of these, please. The "boring by design" framing is underrated.

    • GR
      Gautam RajAuthor1 day ago

      Thanks! I'll probably write a follow-up on how this plays out with async workers specifically.

  • DK
    Dev K.1 day ago

    Curious how this applies to serverless, where you don't control the process lifecycle as directly.

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