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Re:Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes by RhodesianHunter on Monday January 30, 2017 @11:18PM (#13527555)
I write a lot of Java on AWS lambda and love it for a lot of use cases.

You manage dependencies by bundling them up in a JAR or zip file (handled by Maven or Gradle)

Static assets can be kept warm between invocations (nice for things like DB connections)

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Re:Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes by lars_francke on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:18AM (#13530685)
Perfect, thank you. Some of the docs I read made it out so that instances of my functions would never be reused. Or to put it better: I should not rely on them being reused.

If I keep DB connections for example am I now relying on an implementation detail or is this documented behavior? I realize that this will be different for every system.

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Re:Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes by RhodesianHunter on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @07:40PM (#13536987)
As long as you invoke your lambda again within a few minutes it will re-use your static assets.

I'm sure they use your invocation history in deciding how long to keep them around.

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