Serverless Patterns That Work (and the Ones That Bite) | Clickmasters

Long-running work jammed into timeout limits, chatty synchronous function chains, and state smuggled into containers — each fixable by stepping back to event-driven shape.

Per-invocation pricing wins on spikes, loses at sustained saturation; model the duty cycle and keep the containerized exit in view for workloads that grow steady.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.