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AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
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Re: AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
#12I don't think I'd trust building directly on it for the 100 req/sec limit and whatever latency it introduces, but it seems like it would complement heroku dynos really nicely farming out processor-intensive stuff like bcrypt.
Re: AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
#13What's the typical latency for a request when you use lambda, such as for this example?
the first time i found it to be about 1-2 seconds, afterwards it's more 0-1s
Re: AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
#14What's the typical latency for a request when you use lambda, such as for this example?
My anecdotal experience is that it's about ~1 sec. for a "cold" request, and on the order of 10s of ms for repeated requests thereafter.
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#15I like the idea of Lambda. I have some linux binaries that I would like to run on demand. I wonder if this is possible.
Re: AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
#16I don't think I'd trust building directly on it for the 100 req/sec limit and whatever latency it introduces, but it seems like it would complement heroku dynos really nicely farming out processor-intensive stuff like bcrypt.
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Re: AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
#17So the backend becomes a repository of small lambda-modules.. on a testing perspective, that's pretty cool. I agree that it could be the next big thing as new libraries leverage that.
Basically, there's no more "Platform as a service".. there is just "your code" that gets executed whenever. You can upload a new module without touching the other modules.
Something worth exploring in my next hackathon : )
Re: AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
#18I like the idea of Lambda. I have some linux binaries that I would like to run on demand. I wonder if this is possible.
Pretty much. Anything that you can compile on the AWS Amazon Linux AMI will run on Lambda.
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#19I like the idea of Lambda. I have some linux binaries that I would like to run on demand. I wonder if this is possible.
You should be able to do that as described here : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/running-executables-in-...
Note that there are some limits regarding the size of the zip you upload [1].
Re: AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
#20This makes me think that Amazon should build a service that acts as a virtualized "pre-fork worker model" server (a la [g]unicorn) and transparently scales WSGI/Rack/etc application processes across machines.