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Lambda has its places, but I've noticed devs consistently using it for things where it doesn't make any goddamn sense. Like processing messages from a Kafka con
by pram 2y ago
Lambda has its places, but I've noticed devs consistently using it for things where it doesn't make any goddamn sense. Like processing messages from a Kafka consumer, the function is running 24/7. People think it's a container or something.
- Sharlin 2y agoNews at eleven: devs use tech for utterly inappropriate purposes just because it happens to be cool at the moment.
- morkalork 2y agoI can definitely see lambdas being abused when the process for requesting dedicated resources is too arduous.
- jbmchuck 2y agohttps://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/deploy-lambda-functions-with-container-images.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat...
- liveoneggs 2y agoyes where I work there is an alert for when a lambda is not running. I have proposed wrapping the lambda code in a while() loop on a fargate many many times to save $thousands of dollars but I lack the political power to actually do it.