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We have gone full circle c:
by kalium-xyz 6y ago
We have gone full circle c:
- waheoo 6y agoIm still trying to understand the difference between a .php file and a lamda "serverless" application.
- CGamesPlay 6y agoWell a php file (that isn't a library, so one that produces output) is one of the things that you could write to be a lambda function. But not every lambda function can be expressed as a php file. So I could download some video filtering lambda functions and they can be written in anything, then I can link them against my application, which I write in PHP. The language/platform/dependency freedom is what takes it from literal CGI script to lambda function.
- naniwaduni 6y agoIt took a moment of thinking to decide which of "literal CGI script" or "lambda function" you were attributing "language/platform/dependency freedom" to. I would've attributed them to CGI.
- CGamesPlay 6y agoAh, that's fair. I was mostly attempting to highlight that a php script is a subset of lambda functions (from a conceptual viewpoint). Of course it's also a subset of CGI scripts as well (in a much more literal viewpoint).
- buster 6y agoThis does not sound right. The platform independence and freedom is the big win for lambda where it is basically the perfect vendor lock-in? With serverless you give up a lot of independence.
- CGamesPlay 6y agoThis is a strange observation to make about an opensource "selfhosted lambda server".