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Re:Writing Cloud Functions by alooPotato on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:29AM (#11071082)
What are some good use cases for this or aws lambda?

I.E. when would you use this over a plain old simple appengine app

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Re:Writing Cloud Functions by robzyb on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:50AM (#11071140)
An AWS lambda function powers this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/actdigstream

Considering that the lambda function was pretty easy to write, free to run, and very portable: why would an Appengine app be better?

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Re:Writing Cloud Functions by teej on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:43AM (#11071115)
I built a webhook consumer from scratch with API gateway and Lambda in a day. It's not the cheapest, but I don't have to worry about provisioning servers or scaling it up. Overall I'm pretty happy with it.
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Re:Writing Cloud Functions by kevindeasis on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:41AM (#11071111)
The shortest explanation would be:

These will allow you to automatically scale up or down easily. You don't have to maintain your server.

It has its advantages and disadvantages.

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Re:Writing Cloud Functions by rshm on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @04:15AM (#11071548)
Together with SES i am using lambda to route inbound email to http endpoint.
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Re:Writing Cloud Functions by jsprogrammer on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:36AM (#11071096)
What would be the benefit for the mom over Lambda or another solution?
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Re:Writing Cloud Functions by jayzalowitz on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:40AM (#11071107)
Nothing over other solutions but it is being built on more of an elastic system, so you are only paying for the time your mom is using. (It took all my strength not to phrase that another way)
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