“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:54PM (#19082492)

Netflix (AWS) and Twitter (GCP) seem to have different opinions.

I know for a fact GE is moving a lot of their workload to AWS.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by pathseeker on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:40AM (#19083438)

>Netflix (AWS) and Twitter (GCP) seem to have different opinions.

Yeah, Netflix's opinion is to use Amazon as little as possible. Their critical infrastructure (the CDN) is not anywhere near the slimy grip of AWS.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by cthalupa on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:52AM (#19085733)

>Yeah, Netflix's opinion is to use Amazon as little as possible.

This is simply untrue. Everything but their CDN uses AWS.

>Their critical infrastructure (the CDN) is not anywhere near the slimy grip of AWS.

The streaming website and app aren't critical infrastructure? Databases containing all of their business and customer details aren't critical infrastructure? Encoding content so it can be delivered by the CDN isn't critical infrastructure?

That's like saying I don't trust Ford because I buy Michelin tires while I drive a Fusion.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:11AM (#19083517)

The CDN is in the ISPs data center. You can’t get much lower latency than that. But if Netflix is AWS’s largest customer, I doubt they are using it as little as possible.

Netflix does presentations every year at ReInvent about how they use AWS and they have a ton of open source tooling they wrote specifically tied to AWS.

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