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I tried to use GAE back in the day, and it suffered from cold-start issues. Same story as if you tried to develop lambda-backed website with Java on AWS, and yo

by watt 8y ago

I tried to use GAE back in the day, and it suffered from cold-start issues. Same story as if you tried to develop lambda-backed website with Java on AWS, and your lambda may take 20 seconds to start from cold.

sytse 8y ago
Interesting. Heroku had cold start issues when you were on the free tier and didn't have any questions for a couple of minutes. Did GAE work the same?
- watt 8y ago
  Yes, exactly. They would shut down your container (or whatever it was).
  - sytse 8y ago
    Makes sense. With Heroku I used to run a monitoring service that made a request every minute to prevent this.
dangoor 8y ago
Yeah, other languages (Go, Python, Node) can cold start much more quickly.
joecot 8y ago
Lambda also has very long (15+ second) cold start times if you start lambda functions attached to a VPC (such as lambda functions that connect to your MySQL server).