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A comment on “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017). Parent comment

Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:54AM (#19083274)
Well, what scale would that be? Larger than Netflix?
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by staticassertion on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:48AM (#19083455)
While I could probably answer that, I don't think it's relevant to my central point - that lock-in is not as big of a deal as it's portrayed as, and that lambdas do not make the problem considerably worse.
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by pathseeker on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:34AM (#19083420)
The vast majority of Netflix's traffic is video and it's video is not served by Amazon.

Using a company that bypasses Amazon for 99.999% of its traffic isn't exactly an Amazon success story.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by parasubvert on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:05AM (#19084552)
That’s an incredibly ignorant and misleading statement. It’s sort of like saying a database isn’t valuable because 99.999% of requests hit the cache, and not the disk.

Everything was built on Amazon and video is largely hosted on S3. Yes, there’s a large CDN in the mix too. That doesn’t take away from the achievement.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:24AM (#19083555)
Well, what do you think Netflix is doing to be AWS’s largest customer? Have you seen any of their presentations on YouTube from AWS reinvent? Where do you think they encode the videos? Handle sign ins, etc?
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by late2part on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:15AM (#19083342)
No. At the scale of Netflix 7 years ago:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2012/06/04/netfl...

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:20AM (#19083361)
That’s just the CDN. Netflix is still by far AWS’s biggest customer and its compute is still on AWS. I don’t think most companies are going to be setting up colos at ISPs around the world.
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