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Re:Serverless at Scale: Lessons from 200M Lambda Invocations by maccard on Sunday November 12, 2023 @09:30AM (#38240348)
> Sounds implausible but I’ve seen that more than once!

The textbook example of this going wrong is a lambda that is invoked on uploading to S3 that writes the result to S3. There's even an AWS article on it - [0]

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/avoiding-recursive-invo...

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Re:Serverless at Scale: Lessons from 200M Lambda Invocations by easton on Sunday November 12, 2023 @02:35PM (#38243381)
We actually got an email from AWS recently at work that said “hey! Your lambda writes to a queue that invokes the same lambda, that seems wack”. We need it that way, but it’s enough of a problem that they built a way to detect it automatically.
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