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Re:New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support by ngrilly on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:13PM (#25269960)
Why does the lambda container has to pull events from the lambda runtime using an HTTP GET request, instead of having the runtime push the events with an HTTP POST?
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Re:New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support by munns on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:26PM (#25270143)
This is all based on how the RunTime API worked already (pre-dates this launch by 2 years or so). We wanted to not change too many bits.

Since function code has no listening socket/port as it were you need something (like the bootstrap script in a custom RunTime) to pull the local interface for the runtime API. That runs on the underlying worker and communicates with the API for Lambda.

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Re:New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support by saurik on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @03:02AM (#25274189)
How would the runtime know for sure when the container was ready to accept the request? The lambda model--with the container pulling the events instead of them being pushed to it--seems like the correct way to model the concurrency.
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Re:New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support by ngrilly on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:17PM (#25281780)
Retries and health checks.
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