Haven't had much time to read the docs. Sorry if it's already evident, but does it allow for running Lambda code on cron as opposed to listening to some event?
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#52I love that it uses Node.js to start, but does it support NPM?
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#53I'd pretty much given up on AWS for compute and moved most everything to Linode and some bare metal servers, but this service looks very compelling for discrete compute tasks.
The ability to pay only for the fractions of seconds actually used, and the ability to scale quickly without provisioning (or over-provisioning) EC2 instances, is awfully attractive.
Plus, Amazon has priced this pretty aggressively — i.e., it looks shockingly cheap.
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#54I love that it uses Node.js to start, but does it support NPM?
Looks like yes:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/walkthrough-s3-e...
Now, how to deal with node packages that require libraries not on the default amazon linux ami?
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#55Should I think of this essentially as an abstraction that can replace my asynchronous task queue + workers (e.g. RabbitMQ + Celery workers, obviously assuming you aren't using MQ for additional messaging)? I hate managing those pieces and would be happy to hand that infrastructure to Lambda, but are there additional benefits or use cases that are opened up?
I guess I would have expected others to describe this the same way ("replaces your distributed task queue"), but since I'm not seeing that description I wonder if I've misunderstood.
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#56Haven't had much time to read the docs. Sorry if it's already evident, but does it allow for running Lambda code on cron as opposed to listening to some event?
Yes. From the bottom of TFA:
Scheduled Tasks
AWS Lambda functions can be triggered by external event timers, so functions can be run during regularly scheduled maintenance times or non-peak hours. For example, you can trigger an AWS Lambda function to perform nightly archive cleanups during non-busy hours.
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#57I'm so torn - on one side this is a very neat thing that'll save a lot of boilerplate, and on the other it screams of vendor lock-in.
I won't be surprised if someone writes a generic lambda library which given a cloud provider generates relevant mappings/code. Will take care of some of the vendor lock-in concerns ?
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#58I’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…
You cant (at present) execute code on a GET request, so you need to have static content pushed to S3 as the basis for your app. You can update it on POST/PUT though, so you can construct an application via that.
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#59Haven't had much time to read the docs. Sorry if it's already evident, but does it allow for running Lambda code on cron as opposed to listening to some event?
Yes. From the bottom of TFA: Scheduled Tasks AWS Lambda functions can be triggered by external event timers, so functions can be run during regularly scheduled maintenance times or non-peak hours. For example, you can trigger an AWS Lambda function to perform nightly archive cleanups during non-busy hours.
That's great news. Thanks mate.
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#60Right now the only language/runtime supported is js/node, but they intend to include others. (figured people would want to know this, and you have to scroll a ways to find out, so)
I saw it and was shocked that Python is not yet supported.