Re:AWS Is Asleep at the Lambda Wheel
by 8note on Friday March 03, 2023 @12:51AM
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This sounds like it would fall under
"Earns trust"
For the Amazon leadership principles.
(From an Amazon cdo engineer looking over at aws, nothing official of course)
Developers gain trust in AWS lambda by having it support the current runtimes, and keeping the old ones running for a long time. Lambda will always run the functions you want it to.
For some tension:
When I've taken free beers to chat with the lambda folks, it seems like they have a linearly growing oe burden for each new runtime version they support, and at least 4 or 5 years ago, I couldn't see a path towards avoiding that
"Earns trust"
For the Amazon leadership principles.
(From an Amazon cdo engineer looking over at aws, nothing official of course)
Developers gain trust in AWS lambda by having it support the current runtimes, and keeping the old ones running for a long time. Lambda will always run the functions you want it to.
For some tension:
When I've taken free beers to chat with the lambda folks, it seems like they have a linearly growing oe burden for each new runtime version they support, and at least 4 or 5 years ago, I couldn't see a path towards avoiding that