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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:52PM (#19082484)
Not just the network overhead, the maintenance and setup overhead. I can spin up an entire full stack in multiple accounts just by creating a CloudFormation template.

I’ve done stress testing by spinning up and tearing down multiple VMs played with different size databases, autoscaled read replicas for performance. Ran a spot fleet, etc.

When you need things now you don’t have time to requisition hardware and get it sent to your colo.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by chrischen on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:16PM (#19082574)
As far as spinning up and down, a lot of this is solved with docker, while also being relatively platform independent.
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:38PM (#19082668)
So Docker allows me to scale up MySQL Read replicas instantaneously? And I still have to manage infrastructure.
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by chrischen on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:59PM (#19088512)
Well, you can use a container service or use EC2 still.
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:53PM (#19089733)
And then you still have more stuff to manage now based on the slim chance that one day years down the road you might rip your entire multi Az redundant infrastructure, your databases, etc with all of the read replicas to another provider....

And this doesn’t count all of the third party hosted services.

Aurora (Mysql) redundantly writes your data to six different storage devices across multiple availability zones. The read replicas read from the same disks. As soon as you bring up a read replica, the data is already there. You can’t do that with a standard Mysql read replica.

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