Support for tagging of Lambda functions and for the Python 3.6 runtime

Re:Support for tagging of Lambda functions and for the Pytho... by southpolesteve on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:23PM (#14143987)

If you go to www.bustle.com or www.romper.com you get a JS app server side rendered by AWS Lambda and delivered through API Gateway (CDN in front of that). We do 50+ million unique visitors a month. Our team is super happy with the result and our AWS bill is smaller than it was on EC2. Cost was not a motivating factor for the switch but it is nice when the bill goes down.

It is most definitely ready. I gave a talk at Node Interactive last year that has some more detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4rvh_Iq6LE&index=2&list=PLf...

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Re:Support for tagging of Lambda functions and for the Pytho... by abalone on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @03:52AM (#14146168)

Very cool. At your scale have you noticed any problems with cold start latencies?

I know cold starts are an issue when services have a lull in usage, and that you can work around it. But I'm curious whether cold starts also happen when there's a surge in demand and AWS needs to spin up more containers or whatever it uses to host Lambdas.

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Re:Support for tagging of Lambda functions and for the Pytho... by southpolesteve on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:58PM (#14206927)

We haven't seen any issues. Most of our latency critical functions are called a lot. We do get significant spikes in traffic but our CDN does handle some of that load.

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