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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by FraaJad on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:22PM (#18566644)
If I were doing this today, I would prototype the problem in Python and after realising the startup penalty, would rewrite it in D's Mir [1] or Nim's ArrayMancer [2].

Life on a lambda is too short to pay 6-8 second startup penalty over and over millions of time.

[1]: https://github.com/libmir/mir-algorithm [2]: https://mratsim.github.io/Arraymancer/

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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by dacm on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:59AM (#18568457)
Our problem is that we have a team of data scientists who are familiar with Python, plus a decent set of custom tools written in it, so changing languages isn't an option
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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by FraaJad on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:55AM (#18568716)
that's often the current explanation for continued use of Pyhton and R.

Often it is a sign that the problem is not "big" enough (eg: not crunching truly large data sets) OR data science team gets disproportionate amount of goodwill (thus money) to spend on its foibles. :)

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