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Can someone give some concrete example uses of why I would want to use workers in production? From what I understand, it works like a middleware/caching layer b
by trinovantes 6y ago
Can someone give some concrete example uses of why I would want to use workers in production? From what I understand, it works like a middleware/caching layer but without database access. Is the potential cost savings worth the development overhead/platform-lockin?
- ithkuil 6y agoFWIW the KV features adds a kind of database to workers
- gravypod 6y agoSame reason people want to use AWS lambda. If you're already locked in and have the right use case it's cheap. Personally the product isn't for me (I'd rather write portable code) but I can see why someone would like it.
- trinovantes 6y agoThanks, I have not heard of AWS Lambda before. I was able to find some case studies on Amazon's website [1] describing practical uses in production. It seems the most common uses are processing user uploaded images/videos. I can definitely see cost savings here without significant platform lock-ins since they're probably just short functions running imagemagick/ffmepg. https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/resources/#Customer_case_studiesorder=desc#Customer_case_studies https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/resources/#Customer_case_studi...