Re:Ask HN: How has your experience with AWS Lambda been?
by armis on Saturday March 10, 2018 @02:42AM
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That's a great list of gotchas, could you specify some main reasons why you'd still choose lambda with so many small issues vs "traditional" hosting?
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Re:Ask HN: How has your experience with AWS Lambda been?
by scrollaway on Saturday March 10, 2018 @04:37AM
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It's not either-or. I wouldn't replace "traditional" hosting by Lambda, but among other things it is very suitable for the following use cases:
- You have a mostly static site that needs a couple of dynamic views (eg. comment or payment processing), but the site doesn't get enough traffic to put a webserver behind it.
- You are continuously processing sub-5min tasks and don't want to have to be doing the up/down scaling yourself and you're willing to pay a premium to have the scaling be managed.
- You want an easy way to run a piece of code from various AWS triggers without having to set up webhooks in between.
- Your next employer is a buzzword vulture and you have an idea for a serverless virtual reality blockchain.