You can rip out quite a bit of logic into separate services with this.
Will definitely be interesting to see how Lambda actually works.
Try out Blockspring, you can play around with your usecase now (and no vendor lock-in).
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#12I’ve had a chance to use the service for a couple of weeks. My quick summary review is that it’s a little tricky setting up the IAM roles and security groups, but once you have that going, it works great! I see a ton of potential here in transforming the way people use AWS. I also put together the Netflix use cases in the keynote so if you have any questions I’ll try to answer them!
What does this mean to application development? Is it something revolutionay?
Interesting question. I think some advanced apps already use these techniques. For example we already do event driven things at Netflix.
What this does it make it a lot easier for smaller companies to do it without having to invest in all the infrastructure.
So I think yes, it will be revolutionary in the sense that it will get a lot more people using what I think is the future direction of compute and application building.
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#13I’ve had a chance to use the service for a couple of weeks. My quick summary review is that it’s a little tricky setting up the IAM roles and security groups, but once you have that going, it works great! I see a ton of potential here in transforming the way people use AWS. I also put together the Netflix use cases in the keynote so if you have any questions I’ll try to answer them!
One thing I am struggling to understand is how much of my applications can be replaced with Lambda.
I think it would be really awesome to make applications that do not have any dedicated instances associated with them, but are entirely based on the various AWS platforms.
For some things, it seems like Lambda could be a drop-in replacement, whereas others, it would not quite fit the bill. Do you think it will be possible to build a viable a "server-free" application with Lambda and the other services (S3, DynamoDB)? Or is it probably going to be limited to the types of use cases listed on the landing page[1]?
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#14Something I want: AWS Lambda code which responds to S3 PUTs by issuing Cloudfront invalidations. Anyone want to write this?
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#15This is way cool especially considering S3's event notification will enable a ton of interesting workflows: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8602955
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#16From a casual glance: it's kind of like Heroku but with Node.js, and it scales automatically?
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#17This reminds me of http://www.Webscript.io
Similar single event -> function service
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#18I’ve had a chance to use the service for a couple of weeks. My quick summary review is that it’s a little tricky setting up the IAM roles and security groups, but once you have that going, it works great! I see a ton of potential here in transforming the way people use AWS. I also put together the Netflix use cases in the keynote so if you have any questions I’ll try to answer them!
One thing I am struggling to understand is how much of my applications can be replaced with Lambda. I think it would be really awesome to make applications that do not have any dedicated instances associated with them, but are entirely based on the various AWS platforms. For some things, it seems like Lambda could be a drop-in replacement, whereas others, it would not quite fit the bill. Do you think it will be possi…
It is completely possible. Consider that the major uses for a server are interacting with clients, storing data (backend database) and manipulating that data. Here the clients can interact directly with S3/Dynamo, this in turn will trigger Lambda functions to manipulate data, and the round trip can be accomplished via SNS.
Of course, it would be much more viable to have some sort of server running (for example I doubt Netflix has replaced their entire backend with Lambda functions), but a great majority of workflows dealing with stateless data manipulation and events can now be streamlined and even replaced.
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#19All these announcement are making me feel sorry for all the other players in the cloud game. The other guys don't even come close.
Agreed. However, Amazon's pricing and rather complicated infrastructure means that there will always be a market for people like the DigitalOcean's of the world (I just want a cheap VM, now).
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#20I’ve had a chance to use the service for a couple of weeks. My quick summary review is that it’s a little tricky setting up the IAM roles and security groups, but once you have that going, it works great! I see a ton of potential here in transforming the way people use AWS. I also put together the Netflix use cases in the keynote so if you have any questions I’ll try to answer them!
One thing I am struggling to understand is how much of my applications can be replaced with Lambda. I think it would be really awesome to make applications that do not have any dedicated instances associated with them, but are entirely based on the various AWS platforms. For some things, it seems like Lambda could be a drop-in replacement, whereas others, it would not quite fit the bill. Do you think it will be possi…
I think it's completely possible. Amazon has all the pieces you need (compute and storage). That being said, you may need to wait for ec2 events to do some really complicated stuff.