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Re:Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase by ruleabidinguser on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:21PM (#13833124)
I'm curious more generally why would somebody use Lambda at all? Surely its far more expensive than running on your own servers (or instances), no?
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Re:Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase by ceejayoz on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:36PM (#13833301)
Lambda's billed in 100 millisecond increments. EC2 servers are billed in one hour increments. If you need short tasks that run in bursty workloads, Lambda's (potentially) a no-brainer.
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Re:Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase by imtringued on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:55AM (#13838214)
Firebase users don't want to run their own servers.
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