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Re:Serverless Map/Reduce by iagooar on Friday November 04, 2016 @01:38PM (#12874374)
Call it Function as a Service if you prefer.
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Re:Serverless Map/Reduce by elcct on Friday November 04, 2016 @02:31PM (#12874790)
I think it is wrong because AWS doesn't provide function. More correct would be Function Caller as a Service
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Re:Serverless Map/Reduce by aikah on Friday November 04, 2016 @06:23PM (#12876671)
How about "worker queue" ? because it is exactly what is it. Obfuscating the details is silly. There is nothing new about the technology. It is only marketed as new (which is reflected in the pricing).
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Re:Serverless Map/Reduce by benballjr on Friday November 04, 2016 @02:41PM (#12874855)
Even that's tricky, because it's also Backend as a Service BaaS/MBaaS at work, various frameworks and other solutions, etc.
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Re:Serverless Map/Reduce by cpollard0 on Friday November 04, 2016 @05:30PM (#12876306)
It can power a front end. It's like a micro container as a service.
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Re:Serverless Map/Reduce by brianwawok on Friday November 04, 2016 @06:31PM (#12876734)
As long as you don't mind 3s startup latency, or 200ms hot path latency?
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