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I still think Lambda was just CGI tarted up and sold as a whole new thing. There was a transition period where people were trying to still use CGI but make it

I still think Lambda was just CGI tarted up and sold as a whole new thing. There was a transition period where people were trying to still use CGI but make it scale so you had things like CGI mod_perl in Apache.

tyingq 6y ago
Ah, yeah...mod_perl did make a nice bridge for Perl stuff. I had mentioned NSAPI because we had C++ CGI and NSAPI was available before things like FastCGI.
Nursie 6y ago
Been thinking this recently, lambda is a return to CGI, you provide a small program that runs and provides its results to something which sends them back to the client.
- tyingq 6y ago
  And you similarly worry about things like cold starts :)
  - _wldu 6y ago
    Unless your lambda was written in Go.
    - tyingq 6y ago
      Maybe. ~300ms floor isn't terrific for some use cases, and could be higher if you need an ENI, etc.