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I hope that app isn't actually running on a server somewhere for each commit indefinitely, and that it's moreso intended for serverless setups, like the Netlift

by meibo 4y ago

I hope that app isn't actually running on a server somewhere for each commit indefinitely, and that it's moreso intended for serverless setups, like the Netlift edge functions they mentioned... We could do with some more consciousness for energy & compute resources in this industry, as decoupled it may be from the real world, clicking the button to deploy an EC2 instance somewhere does use real power and will contribute to hardware wear.

mayama 4y ago
It's serverless functions. So they should launch those instances on the fly when a request hits that url and that instance will shutdown after some inactivity. Same with all the 50+ edge locations they provide. They only launch an instance instance in particular region, when user hits that region.