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Re:Ride the Serverless Wave with DigitalOcean's One-Click Dr... by vasilakisfil on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:40AM (#19077720)
on a side note, heroku can be really nice serverless provider. The instances can be created (using the API) in a couple of seconds. And you can run anything in it.
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Re:Ride the Serverless Wave with DigitalOcean's One-Click Dr... by extra88 on Monday February 04, 2019 @01:45PM (#19079319)
Are you suggesting that an end user should be able to click a button on your site that will run client-side JavaScript spin up a Heroku instance to perform an action? That sounds dangerous and slow. How is destruction of the instance handled?
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Re:Ride the Serverless Wave with DigitalOcean's One-Click Dr... by petercooper on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:30PM (#19081733)
Doesn't sound like the world's best idea, but I guess it could potentially work on things like ETL or maintenance tasks - not so much for quicker, end user operations at scale.
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Re:Ride the Serverless Wave with DigitalOcean's One-Click Dr... by vasilakisfil on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:15AM (#19086656)
no, I am suggesting using it based on what it provides. Lag 2-3 seconds, power: multi-cpu, up to 12 GB ram. So obviously it's not for trivial cases like "click a button, spin up a lambda" but more to "upload a video, spin up instance to resize/shrink/format/compress".

Serverless has many use cases.

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