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In a way, sure. But Lambda also does things that CGI didn't do: dynamic auto-scaling, integration with queues and streams for async processing, strong security
by mjb 4y ago
In a way, sure.
But Lambda also does things that CGI didn't do: dynamic auto-scaling, integration with queues and streams for async processing, strong security isolation with fine-grained authorization, host failure detection and recovery, datacenter failure resilience, and many other things. The interface being familiar and relatively analogous to existing things is intentional. The point is to be different where being different helps, and familiar where being different doesn't help.
- tedunangst 4y agoYou get like 90% of that dropping your CGI directory on NFS shared among multiple hosts. AWS offers a full featured host environment, so you don't have to build that part, but the part you write is quite similar.
- scarface74 4y agoDid CGI allow you to have your individual CGI scripts in separate containers?
- mhitza 4y agoIf it talks via FastCGI you could have individual containers per whatever unit of segmentation you'd like.