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Well enterprises that build pipelines often end up with Rube Goldberg type horrors regardless, and Lambda is more easy and fun to prototype with than say, Spark
by recuter 5y ago
Well enterprises that build pipelines often end up with Rube Goldberg type horrors regardless, and Lambda is more easy and fun to prototype with than say, Spark. If you know someone like that wait until they click around and find "step functions".
There are more legit use cases. Lets say you are in charge of Eurovision.
You spike from 0 to xxx,xxx of votes on an irregular basis during a few nights a year.
You run an auction or ticket sales website of some sort.
Your blog gets 3 clicks a month except for when you actually post something and it briefly gets noticed by HN.
- sofixa 5y agoFor blogs there's no need for "serverless" ( in the "classical" sense, FaaS/CaaS), static hosts exist, have an added security benefit and are very cheap, often with generous free tiers. They're also serverless in the sense that you don't need to manage servers, and can scale from 0 to millions in the blink of an eye. ( For reference, my blog costs me 0€/month, once going over the free tier of Firebase Hosting and costing me the grand total of 0.03€ in a month where it was twice on the HN front page, including briefly at #1).