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Ask HN: Python Serverless Functions?
We're working on a project that requires handling and responding to events. Is there a way to deploy Python functions similar to CloudFlare JavaScript workers? AWS Lambda cold starts are unacceptable to us.
- leros 3y agoYou can compile your Python to WebAssembly and run the WebAssembly in Cloudflare workers.
- killingtime74 3y agoCold starts have been optional in lambda for several years now... You can pay to keep it warm. Even before that there were open source projects that poked the lambda on a schedule to keep them warm
- gyanreyer 3y agoCloudflare has an example project where you can write a worker in python and have it transpiled to JavaScript, but that feels a little funky. https://github.com/cloudflare/python-worker-hello-world https://github.com/cloudflare/python-worker-hello-world
- jcz_nz 3y agoHave you considered App Engine? GCP has "cloud functions" but it's just a python cloudrun container behind the scenes, with all the associated issues. We found it's easier to just use cloudrun.
- riyakhanna1983 3y agoWe have not, but suspect that cold starts would be worse for GAE apps.
- icedchai 3y agoYou can use provisioned concurrency w/ Lambda. You still may get "cold starts" when you exceed what you've provisioned, so you'll want to over-provision.
- riyakhanna1983 3y ago[MORE: cannot edit] We're looking to cut down our Cloud costs, so over provisioning to make up for cold starts is not an option for us. Curious to know how others are in the same situation and how they are handling this?
- abyesilyurt 3y agoHow about Cloud Run with minimum instances?
- nathants 3y agofor lambda, use zip not container, much faster cold starts.
- ruskyhacker 3y agoAzure function apps