“…Similarly, although reports of successful serverless applications for data-intensive applications exist [13], [14], other reports claim that serverless is not well suited for data-intensive applications [9]. As a third and last example, although a recent study differentiates between containers and serverless and finds the former to be preferable for latency-critical tasks [15], others see them as connected [16], [17] or report successfully applying serverless to latency-critical, user-facing traffic [18]. Having concrete information on these topics would be valuable for developers, to guide decisions on whether serverless is a suitable paradigm for their specific application.…”