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Fastest growing runtime, largest module ecosystem. That's it. The goal is to encourage adoption and validate a product quickly, so you ride the biggest wave. A
by keithwhor 9y ago
Fastest growing runtime, largest module ecosystem. That's it. The goal is to encourage adoption and validate a product quickly, so you ride the biggest wave.
AWS has the resources to grow teams around different languages / runtimes, smaller players (or recent IPOs) do not in the same capacity. Targeting anything other than Node would be "the largest" disservice to your customer base in the case of Twilio, and would artificially slow any other player.
- PKop 9y agoIn addition, Node seems to have beneficial performance characteristics when it comes to cold startup time, compared to say Java, which probably helps when it comes to pay-only-for-requests functions as a service that aren't always running. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=679050 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=679050