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I think you missed most of the points in the post. To address your points which are well covered in the post (I'm guessing you didn't read it): 1) Printing bills is very expensive …

You might want to check out IronFunctions that was released last week: https://github.com/iron-io/functions . You can run Lambda functions anywhere, can even export/import them dir…

Unfortunately, Docker has a fair bit of overhead, more on that here: https://medium.com/travis-on-docker/the-overhead-of-docker-r... . That said, the overhead is probably not a big…

Yes, we are! Follow this issue: https://github.com/iron-io/functions/issues/100

Yes, Java is supported. Like the other comment, anything you can run in a Docker container, which is pretty much any language. It also supports the same format/structure as Lambda …

Yes, both are supported. See the main README for how to use both.

I talk about cost being the main factor in this post about the benefits of Serverless. It's definitely the driving factor: https://www.iron.io/what-is-serverless-computing/

I"m pretty sure that's not why Docker was created. And Nix is definitely not a simpler solution for packaging/dependency management. It's a good idea, but with all the advantages o…

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