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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by ramraj07 on Friday November 30, 2018 @12:43AM (#18567016)
Why though? Is it cheaper than just running a bunch of servers?
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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by dacm on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:12AM (#18568511)
It is in our case. This is a service which is very seasonal, so it may be used during a couple of days each month only. Having a bunch of instances mostly idle would definitely be more expensive
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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by yourapostasy on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:01AM (#18569990)
How much delay from a cold start can your application tolerate? On the order of tenths of a second or up to one second?
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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by dacm on Friday November 30, 2018 @12:59PM (#18570946)
Being that the data is queried from a web app through HTTP, the shorter the better. Around 1 sec should be alright, but 6 - 8 definitely isn't
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