A shared file system for lambda functions

Post by Spivak » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 1:32 AM UTC

Thorentis wrote: post #29

Cool, so we're staring to curve more sharply around the full circle we'll eventually go on. So now lambda functions can mount persistent block storage. Next up: allow your lamda functions to run for longer Then: allow multiple lamda functions to execute concurrently, and indefinitely, as a group, while having block storage mounted And finally: use your EC2 instances as lambda functions

Post by pinewurst » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 1:49 AM UTC

Thorentis wrote: post #29

Cool, so we're staring to curve more sharply around the full circle we'll eventually go on. So now lambda functions can mount persistent block storage. Next up: allow your lamda functions to run for longer Then: allow multiple lamda functions to execute concurrently, and indefinitely, as a group, while having block storage mounted And finally: use your EC2 instances as lambda functions

Post by donavanm » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 2:12 AM UTC

Thorentis wrote: post #32

staticassertion wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that we will see all of those, except the last one. It's no surprise that we're bending around, that's normal. But when we get back to the "feature parity with the past" things will still look very different. We're talking about fully managed systems here that you can compose together to get parity with what you have today with unmanaged systems. I also don't think the time limit on lambdas will extend much f…

I'm imagining the full circle looking like web frameworks "compiling" their controller methods down into lambda functions. e.g. you deploy your Django application to AWS Lambda and it automatically fires a lambda function when a view method is hit via a route. This is already happening where people are deploying static sites backed by lambda function APIs.

Post by orasis » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 2:15 AM UTC

abrookewood wrote: post #34

What is the advantage of using this over S3? Is it just the speed & latency difference between S3 and EFS?

Post by mwarkentin » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 2:35 AM UTC

Thorentis wrote: post #32

staticassertion wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that we will see all of those, except the last one. It's no surprise that we're bending around, that's normal. But when we get back to the "feature parity with the past" things will still look very different. We're talking about fully managed systems here that you can compose together to get parity with what you have today with unmanaged systems. I also don't think the time limit on lambdas will extend much f…

I'm imagining the full circle looking like web frameworks "compiling" their controller methods down into lambda functions. e.g. you deploy your Django application to AWS Lambda and it automatically fires a lambda function when a view method is hit via a route. This is already happening where people are deploying static sites backed by lambda function APIs.