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Re:Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back by sanxchit on Saturday December 15, 2018 @02:15PM (#18689846)
Running functions in a VPC cause them to have cold starts of ~5 seconds. Connection pools need to be centralized to be of any use, since lambdas scale automatically.
Re:Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back by therein on Saturday December 15, 2018 @02:47PM (#18689996)
I found myself in the middle of migrating a startup's entire "something" ingestion pipeline to be entirely done on Lambdas. For our purposes of one data block per every 10-20 minutes, and then processing and ingesting that data, Lambdas work perfectly, and about 10x cheaper than using ECS or EC2.