I've always had one big question about Lambda. Is it really worth the cost you get for the convienience of it?
Is anyone using it in production that can comment?
Serverless Map/Reduce
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's won. That’s the linguistic descriptivist position. We can also require all papers and journals and conferences to use "Function as a Service" everywhere, and force all professors to teach "Function as a Service", and require all official publications to use "Function as a Service", by defining an authoritative dictionary, which gets its authority by law. Then wait a few months, and the term "serverless" will b…
Having a unified way of how to spell things is quite different then prescribing what to call specific things. Which luckily outside of very limited areas (legal terms, protected names and trademarks) doesn't exist in your example countries either.
Yes, it does.
We’ve renamed Camouflieren to Tarnen, and many other words like that.
There’s hundreds of cases of words being entire replaced.
A list of replacements of the past centuries, for example: Distanz → Abstand, Liberey → Bücherei, Moment → Augenblick, Passion → Leidenschaft, Projekt → Entwurf, Addresse → Anschrift, Korrespondenz → Briefwechsel, Komödie → Lustspiel, Dialekt → Mundart, Orthographie → Rechtschreibung, Journal → Tagebuch, Autor → Verfasser, Fundament → Grundlage, Antike → Altertum, Parterre → Erdgeschoss, Universität → Hochschule, Terrorismus → Schreckensherrschaft, Singular → Einzahl, Plural → Mehrzahl, poste restante → postlagernd, Coupé → Abteil, Perron → Bahnsteig, Billet → Fahrkarte, Retourbillet → Rückfahrkarte, download → herunterladen.
And even today there are large companies even funding groups working on replacing parts of the language, be it to replace foreign words, or to simplify words: https://www.rossmann.de/unternehmen/soziale-verantwortung/so...
Obviously, the far-right takes it to an extreme level, even replacing Internet with Weltnetz, but even in the left-wing there’s no opposition to replacing words, or simplifying the language.
And even those opposing those changes (see criticism section here https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_der_deutschen_Rechtschr... ) don’t oppose these concepts in general, just would rather like to see different changes.
Re: Serverless Map/Reduce
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's won. That’s the linguistic descriptivist position. We can also require all papers and journals and conferences to use "Function as a Service" everywhere, and force all professors to teach "Function as a Service", and require all official publications to use "Function as a Service", by defining an authoritative dictionary, which gets its authority by law. Then wait a few months, and the term "serverless" will b…
Is this a parody? Prescriptivism in law is completely unthinkable to UK/US native English speakers.
Well, in France, or Germany (where I’m from), I grew up right after such a change had happened.
I’m not sure why English speakers resist it so much, it simplifies the situation so much, and isn’t an issue anyway.
Re: Serverless Map/Reduce
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having a unified way of how to spell things is quite different then prescribing what to call specific things. Which luckily outside of very limited areas (legal terms, protected names and trademarks) doesn't exist in your example countries either.
Yes, it does. We’ve renamed Camouflieren to Tarnen, and many other words like that. There’s hundreds of cases of words being entire replaced. A list of replacements of the past centuries, for example: Distanz → Abstand, Liberey → Bücherei, Moment → Augenblick, Passion → Leidenschaft, Projekt → Entwurf, Addresse → Anschrift, Korrespondenz → Briefwechsel, Komödie → Lustspiel, Dialekt → Mundart, Orthographie → Rechtschr…
And most of these examples are in the common dictionaries, used in major newspapers, will be accepted in your high-school German tests (as long as you use them appropriately and spell them correctly) and are used or at least easily understood by all native speakers. The others fell out of use over time.
Recommendations by various authorities on what constitutes "good" use of language change, and in Germany there might be more reliance on the big dictionaries (but I honestly can't accurately gauge how this compares to various parts of society in English-speaking countries), but actual language use does not care all that much. The reforms and the dictionary are very relevant for spelling and grammar, but have not much influence on actual selection of words, even less in specialist subjects.
People try to change language use with all kinds of motivations all the time, but they can't do much more than suggest, individuals and organizations decide what they agree to and what they don't. And this exists in other languages just as much (trying to avoid offensive terms, trying to sound modern, trying to remove foreign influences).
Re: Serverless Map/Reduce
#65This is a screenshot of my google search from 2 days ago: http://i.imgur.com/BNAcSsn.png I've been using Lambda quite a bit, I think it's SO amazingly useful. Tasks that are highly parallelized and CPU intensive can literally be infinitely scaled out. I find it weird that their poster child use case is still always a reactive event like watching S3 and formatting images. There are so many use cases for directly invok…
I just restructured a job to be parallel and run on Lambda and I couldn't be happier. Glad to see this idea is gaining mindshare. I found that it was easy to test, easy to debug, easy to maintain, not very expensive, and just kinda worked. The only caveat for those considering taking this path - AWS has an account-wide limit of 100 concurrent lambdas running at once. There's no way to know how many are currently runn…
raising the limit is a pretty easy request to aws support.
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#66I wonder if Amazon will ever open Lambda up to any Docker image? (I know it's possible to run binaries, but its a bit of a pain to compile with the Amazon AMI, etc.) Being able to have a bunch of `docker run` with any image would be pretty powerful.
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#67Does anyone have experience building mobile backends in Lambda? I was looking at an API Gateway / Lambda / Amazon RDS stack for building a central data store and was wondering what people's experience with that setup is?
Using a framework like server less or chalice makes it incredibly easy for an MVP
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#68Is there any AWS Lambda equivalent that could be deployed on bare metal?
Docker
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#69Is there any AWS Lambda equivalent that could be deployed on bare metal?
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#70Is there any AWS Lambda equivalent that could be deployed on bare metal?
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