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Not there yet. Stored procedures are seamlessly integrated with underlying database. There are some hurdles with that for Lambda. But the critical point is tha
by atemerev 11y ago
Not there yet. Stored procedures are seamlessly integrated with underlying database. There are some hurdles with that for Lambda.
But the critical point is that Lambda is distributed and massively scalable, and stored procedures weren't.
Remember that company, Sun? The one that invented Java? When it was still alive, it has an unofficial motto, "the net is the computer". Nobody understood it then; now we know.
All computing science achievements will now be reproduced in distributed environment. OS? Check (AWS/DCOS/Kubernetes). Filesystems? Check (IPFS). IPC? Check (REST/Websocket). Perhaps even "drivers" will be a new thing (for IoT devices).