Running Containers on AWS Lambda

Re:Running Containers on AWS Lambda by vorpalhex on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @12:42PM (#31182322)

I went down the rabbithole of wanting to build my own lightweight Lambda, only to wonder if Lambda is just distributed CGI by another name.

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Re:Running Containers on AWS Lambda by dsanchez97 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:30PM (#31183067)

I think CGI is a good high level way of think about AWS Lambda and other Serverless compute platforms. I think the key innovations are the integrations with cloud services, and the scaling/economic model. Videos like the one linked below really demonstrate the level of optimizations implemented to make this work on the "cloud" scale. I think Serverless Compute platforms are going to become a really meaningful part of the software development ecosystem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-7j0QlGwFk&ab_channel=Insid...

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Re:Running Containers on AWS Lambda by tyingq on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @02:04PM (#31183550)

Feels pretty similar to any typical fastcgi implementation with pools, scaling up/down, separate spaces for initialization code and per-request code, etc.

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Re:Running Containers on AWS Lambda by zevv on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:27PM (#31183018)

And, was it?

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