Does AWS Lambda supports cron-like periodic triggers?
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#102I’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!
Has the keynote been made public anywhere yet?
AWS re:Invent 2014 | Day 2 Keynote with Werner Vogels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ere8VTJDqao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1MrZkGFpuE
TL;DR version:
Re: AWS Lambda
#103It sounds like this is essentially what Joyent's Manta is, which we've been using in production for the last year and have found to be absolutely fantastic. Are there differences that I'm not seeing?
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#104It sounds like this is essentially what Joyent's Manta is, which we've been using in production for the last year and have found to be absolutely fantastic. Are there differences that I'm not seeing?
It's not. The name is confusing. Especially when you hear AWS Lambda and DynamoDB/S3 in the same sentence.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I saw it and was shocked that Python is not yet supported.
Most of the Python things I would want to do have slow startup times. Generally I keep my pythons running. But node is super quick to start.
I'd love a feature like this that I could use with pypy. I don't need 100ms billing resolution, but 1s or 1m would be nice.
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#106Full-circle back to mainframe era.
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#107I wish they hadn't named the units of computation "Lambda functions". Cause, you know there's already something known as a "Lambda function" in computer science. But kudos for Amazon for furthering the datacenter-is-the-computer approach. It is simply the right thing to do.
Really douche to use a computer science term as your product name, are they going to trade mark that or are the just happy with the confusion it will cause.
I have a hard time believing there is cause for confusion here, have Physicists been stumped by Amazon Redshift? I'm not being facetious, I just don't see how a product name that is niche to people using Amazon services is likely to confuse people.
Also, CS hardly owns the greek letter lambda, it like many greek letters has been used for many products and features over the years. Delta is an airline, but they're doing OK, among others. I am just curious what your issue with this is, and if you can come up with some concrete scenarios where this could really confuse people.
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#108I wish they hadn't named the units of computation "Lambda functions". Cause, you know there's already something known as a "Lambda function" in computer science. But kudos for Amazon for furthering the datacenter-is-the-computer approach. It is simply the right thing to do.
Ironic that this is posted on news.ycombinator.com of all sites...
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#109This looks quite interesting, and a lot more fun to work with than maintaining a pool of servers ready to handle events and spinning up new ones based on capacity.
Anyone know of any similar mechanisms for the OpenStack world, or more generally for any cloud infrastructure other than AWS?
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#110AWS Lambda announcement video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eHoyUVo-yg