3 ms·
oh wow, I never knew I was always vaguely irritated by the term and never understood what it meant bc I was like „there must be some server??“ (not working in
by atorodius 3y ago
oh wow, I never knew
I was always vaguely irritated by the term and never understood what it meant bc I was like „there must be some server??“
(not working in web dev)
- SrslyJosh 3y agoYep, you're essentially writing a module that's going to be imported by a server someone else wrote. The server will call the appropriate functions in your module based on the requests it receives, and Amazon gets a bigger check at the end of the month. I think there are probably reasonable use cases for this, like automation that's going to run infrequently, but it seems like a terrible way to implement a typical application that's going to receive frequent requests.
- ElFitz 3y ago> and Amazon gets a bigger check at the end of the month. Or no check at all since it scales to zero and the free tier is ridiculously high for infrequent / low usage.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoWhich is custom designed for extracting money from corporations. PoC works, costs nothing, code delivered much faster. CTO impressed. PoC tidied up and rolled out to production. CTO very not impressed when quarterly expenses are reviewed, but customers are relying on this now.
- orwin 3y ago> I think there are probably reasonable use cases for this, like automation that's going to run infrequently Exactly our usecase. Then the network admins wanted to click button and select their template from lists rather than having to write json, so website it was, and now we run a MVC on lambda. It isn't used that much (at most, you'll get 20 simulaneous users, and its always during a short time period, most of the time nobody use it). Don't know if it's the best choice. Honestly it seems fine.