Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

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Post by garblegarble » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 12:33 PM UTC

Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda
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Re: Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

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Post by chews » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 2:56 PM UTC

nice writeup for how the magic really works. lambdas rock!

Re: Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

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Post by abarrak » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 3:50 PM UTC

A couple of days ago, I tried to search on how AWS operates RDS behind the scenes, since it is a managed stateful service I was wondering whether it runs in a traditional way VM-based or in a fully containerized environment? .. Unfortunately, a simple search will lead you to the consumer/customer resources out there only.

Re: Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

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Post by personlurking » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 3:55 PM UTC

Aside: Lambda, out of Peru, is apparently the next virus variant we need to worry about.

Edit: I had never seen the word before then I saw it used twice in two days, in different contexts. Just thought it was odd.

Re: Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

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Post by adflux » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 3:57 PM UTC

personlurking wrote: post #4

Aside: Lambda, out of Peru, is apparently the next virus variant we need to worry about. Edit: I had never seen the word before then I saw it used twice in two days, in different contexts. Just thought it was odd.

Can we agree to leave COVID out of this discussion?

Re: Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

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Post by dr_kretyn » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 3:58 PM UTC

Is this write up correct? How do they know that? I don't see any references on info source except a talk at re:invent.

Re: Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

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Post by chrisweekly » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 4:00 PM UTC

This is great! Awesome writeup w thekind of details that are sometimes opaque and hard to find documentation for. I recently deployed a NextJS app using Serverless framework (and serverless-nextjs), so Lambda@Edge... looking fwd to playing more with compute at CDN edgein general (eg fly.io). Amazing how easy it is, esp. as someone who came into webdev in 1998.

Re: Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

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Post by garblegarble » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

dr_kretyn wrote: post #6

Is this write up correct? How do they know that? I don't see any references on info source except a talk at re:invent.

There's a decent references section at the bottom, and having watched the talks and briefly scanning the Firecracker paper referenced, they do back up the writer.

Re: Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

adflux wrote: post #5

personlurking wrote: post #4

Aside: Lambda, out of Peru, is apparently the next virus variant we need to worry about. Edit: I had never seen the word before then I saw it used twice in two days, in different contexts. Just thought it was odd.

Can we agree to leave COVID out of this discussion?

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Re: Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

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Post by dr_kretyn » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

garblegarble wrote: post #8

dr_kretyn wrote: post #6

Is this write up correct? How do they know that? I don't see any references on info source except a talk at re:invent.

There's a decent references section at the bottom, and having watched the talks and briefly scanning the Firecracker paper referenced, they do back up the writer.

That's a footnote section and to me the listing is only partially related to the text, i.e. the write up contains a lots more details on multiple components.

Thanks though for backing up this write up. That's +1 for confidence.