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Re:Serverless Golang API with AWS Lambda by jacques_chester on Sunday January 21, 2018 @07:04PM (#16200871)
Self-hosted isn't free either. You're still paying for resources when they're idle. The difference is that you can decide on whether to scale down to 1 or not.

As it happens Riff and most other FaaS projects are built on kubernetes.

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Re:Serverless Golang API with AWS Lambda by merb on Monday January 22, 2018 @03:21AM (#16202777)
> Self-hosted isn't free either. You're still paying for resources when they're idle.

I still have these resources idle, when I use Riff.

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Re:Serverless Golang API with AWS Lambda by jacques_chester on Monday January 22, 2018 @07:31AM (#16203867)
I think we have different meanings of "idle". There's idle in the sense of "this resource is reserved but not in use" and idle in the sense of "this resource is not reserved and can be used elsewhere".

Most folk want cold starts for economic reasons and warm starts for performance reasons. In a hosted setting you can't truly set your policy, you can only try to encourage by external stimuli.

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