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Some platforms like Amazon Lambda let you set up functions to consume data from a variety of event sources: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/invokin

• stingraycharles 8y ago
  How can I consume the Twitter stream API using that?
  • k__ 8y ago
    I don't know this specific API. Either it works with web-hooks that you could lead to a Lambda via API-Gateway. Or it needs to pull the data, then you could trigger Lambda via CloudWatch intervals.
  • tlrobinson 8y ago
    Unless the API can stream directly into one of those sources you'd probably need a long-running process, perhaps running on a CaaS like AWS Fargate. I guess you could argue where to draw the "serverless" line, at functions or containers, but Zeit is calling this container service "serverless" so I think Fargate would fall into the same category. I think it would make sense for Zeit to eventually support long-running containers too (looks like the current max is 30 minutes, I'm not sure how they chose that number)
  • rustyboy 8y ago
    It depends what you're doing with that stream, most basically you would create a nano/micro EC2 instance that will just trigger Lambda events on every new tweet. Or you could create some more intricate script that does a lot of pre-processing and then stores it in RDS or S3, and with each new update to either of those sources kick off a Lambda.