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Re:Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless ... by ironjunkie on Monday July 30, 2018 @02:17PM (#17646670)
I fully agree with you. Based on my experience, Lambda is perfect if you only want to perform some relatively standalone task (such as a compute intensive rendering). As soon as it needs to connect to 3rd party entities, it becomes very slow and loses some of its benefits. Connecting Lambda to an AWS DB for example is challenging to say the least. It also takes a couple tens milliseconds just to setup the DB socket and connection, that on a normal server can simply remain open and wait for the next request.

Serverless is nice, but the ecosystem of serverless tool is really missing today IMO

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Re:Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless ... by scarface74 on Monday July 30, 2018 @08:50PM (#17649670)
Connecting Lambda to an AWS DB for example is challenging to say the least.

Why does this keep getting repeated? You get a publicly accessible host and use the same drivers you use on prem or you put both the lambda and the database inside your VPC.

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