[–] hbcondo714 15d ago ↗ > a burst of incoming traffic can share warm environments instead of mapping each request to a new oneBut cold starts could still occur, especially in a low-traffic environment where requests come in seldomly? [–] fulafel 15d ago ↗ Presumably it can be combined with SnapStartThere was also this a week ago, maybe you can combine this with containers? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/get-started-with-aws-la... [–] HatchedLake721 15d ago ↗ SnapStart doesn't support Node.js (unfortunately?), only Java, Python, .NET [–] fulafel 14d ago ↗ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/snapstart-runti... has instructions for SnapStart with Node. But yes it's more hoops.
[–] fulafel 15d ago ↗ Presumably it can be combined with SnapStartThere was also this a week ago, maybe you can combine this with containers? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/get-started-with-aws-la... [–] HatchedLake721 15d ago ↗ SnapStart doesn't support Node.js (unfortunately?), only Java, Python, .NET [–] fulafel 14d ago ↗ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/snapstart-runti... has instructions for SnapStart with Node. But yes it's more hoops.
[–] HatchedLake721 15d ago ↗ SnapStart doesn't support Node.js (unfortunately?), only Java, Python, .NET [–] fulafel 14d ago ↗ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/snapstart-runti... has instructions for SnapStart with Node. But yes it's more hoops.
[–] fulafel 14d ago ↗ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/snapstart-runti... has instructions for SnapStart with Node. But yes it's more hoops.
[–] tkcranny 15d ago ↗ Looks pretty interesting. I presume the boom in cloudflare workers and other hosting platforms has been a forcing function to make running a web app more “normal” looking with their lambda offering. [–] Lucasoato 15d ago ↗ I had the same impression that this is an answer to Cloudflare workers success, but are AWS Lamba web functions hosted in containers or WASM? [–] AbstractH24 14d ago ↗ Yeah, I'm a bit confused why this is profound. Don't plenty of services already offer this?But maybe I'm dumb or missing something.
[–] Lucasoato 15d ago ↗ I had the same impression that this is an answer to Cloudflare workers success, but are AWS Lamba web functions hosted in containers or WASM?
[–] AbstractH24 14d ago ↗ Yeah, I'm a bit confused why this is profound. Don't plenty of services already offer this?But maybe I'm dumb or missing something.
[–] dang 15d ago ↗ (Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069318 which is currently on the frontpage)
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[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 25.0 ms ] threadBut cold starts could still occur, especially in a low-traffic environment where requests come in seldomly?
There was also this a week ago, maybe you can combine this with containers? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/get-started-with-aws-la...
But maybe I'm dumb or missing something.