Ask HN: Viability of “Amazon Lambda” for C and/or native code?
A prominent skill set among electrical/embedded/firmware engineers is C.
With the advent of IoT, these engineers are being asked to design/write server side components for their products. However, server programming, especially scalable, elastic, low-maintenance and (server) configuration-free options like Amazon Lambda tend to favor javascript/python...
Would you or someone you know use an Amazon Lambda like service for running native functions, without having to configure/learn Docker?
Check out hyper.sh. They allow to launch a Docker image in ~3-5s, without the need to maintain a VM cluster. You can use an API service to automate the provisioning, and then forget about the infra thing.