Scaling Serverless Beyond the First Function

When serverless first hit the scene, it sounded almost too good to be true. No servers to provision. No patching, scaling, or load balancing to worry about. Just write your function, deploy it, and let the cloud handle the rest. It promised developer productivity, fewer ops, faster iteration, automatic scaling, and you only pay when your code runs.

At Jodo a fintech startup focused on simplifying fee payments and collections for MSMEs and educational institutions, we were sold. We jumped in w...