News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on AWS Lambda and .zip is a recipe for serverless success. Parent comment

Re:AWS Lambda and .zip is a recipe for serverless success by zapita on Sunday March 18, 2018 @06:14PM (#16614779)
Wouldn't it be ideal if Docker (and other independent platform vendors) added function support? In my mind "cloud functions" are easily implemented on top of containers. Then we would get the best of both worlds.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AWS Lambda and .zip is a recipe for serverless success by gnahckire on Sunday March 18, 2018 @11:02PM (#16615968)
Check out this project: https://github.com/openfaas/faas
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AWS Lambda and .zip is a recipe for serverless success by electricEmu on Sunday March 18, 2018 @06:39PM (#16614905)
It wouldn't, to me.

I've had to answer many questions about delays in serverless functions that didn't come up with Docker. Serverless doesn't have the introspection necessary to answer performance questions.

What if Docker supported functions? I'd ask what we gain trading a main loop for only bindings. Similar bindings are made either way.

I honestly wish cloud providers would make their core SDKs as easily composable as their serverless offerings.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AWS Lambda and .zip is a recipe for serverless success by carimura on Sunday March 18, 2018 @09:45PM (#16615658)
Exactly. This is the goal of http://FnProject.io -- power of containers + simplicity of serverless. No managed service yet but there will be, and anyone can run the bits to create a service of their own.

I do agree with Paul about containers having a greater update surface area, but we think this is also solvable and doesn't need to be a responsibility of the developer either.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AWS Lambda and .zip is a recipe for serverless success by WorldMaker on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:59PM (#16623101)
The Azure Functions (Azure's equivalent to AWS Lambda) Host is open source: https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/

There's probably enough there to bootstrap a container version.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AWS Lambda and .zip is a recipe for serverless success by aynsof on Sunday March 18, 2018 @09:27PM (#16615582)
Have you looked into Cloud Foundry? From my understanding, it can operate like a FaaS provider or like a Docker container scheduler.
[ Parent | on HN ]