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Re: AWS Lambda

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Post by epowell101 » Sun, Nov 16, 2014, 1:37 AM UTC

Apoplectic wrote: post #80

rodgerd wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel sorry for all the people in 5 - 10 years who discover Amazonis now in a position to charge monopoly rents.

And yet, they don't. Compare that to Oracle. Plus, when Amazon makes a new cloud architecture that gets popular, others copy it. OpenStack will have this if need be in a year or two and then you can port to OS in 5 years when the rent goes up. Oh, and FWIW, when has AWS raised a price? My servers have gotten cheaper every year I've had them with AWS (3).

Regarding OpenStack and something similar, there is the underlying workflow service (not quite the same I know) called Mistral. A project called StackStorm that is related but adds event handling and a rule engine launched a couple weeks ago.

Re: AWS Lambda

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Post by epowell101 » Sun, Nov 16, 2014, 1:43 AM UTC

waitingkuo wrote: post #135

How can it compare to zappier?

Or StackStorm? Or https://factor.io/ I think much much more intra application wiring as opposed to inter app / tool chain wiring. Or?

Re: AWS Lambda

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Post by epowell101 » Sun, Nov 16, 2014, 1:45 AM UTC

nivertech wrote: post #101

Does AWS Lambda supports cron-like periodic triggers?

Yes.

Re: AWS Lambda

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Post by erichammond » Tue, Nov 18, 2014, 11:12 PM UTC

justincormack wrote: post #147

eva1984 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess it is due to the sanboxing issue, which is pretty hard to get right.

I dont think so - the docs suggest you get a full Linux that your code runs on, not just a limited sandbox, one of the blogs mentioned running binary code. So I don't think it is being sandboxed at the language level. Especially as they talked about adding more languages soon.

Yes, the Lambda function is run in an Amazon Linux environment.

I published some explorations of that environment here: http://alestic.com/2014/11/aws-lambda-environment

Let me know in the comments on that article what other commands you'd like to see output for.