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But when were serverless systems like lambda and cloud workers "best practices" for low latency apis?
by ramraj07 1y ago
But when were serverless systems like lambda and cloud workers "best practices" for low latency apis?
- hedora 1y agoAccording to their marketing material, when they started supporting running in edge pop's, they became the best option for low-latency APIs.
- daxfohl 1y agoLast I heard (~5 years ago), lambda@edge doesn't actually run on edge POPs anyway; they're just hooks that you can put in your edge configs that execute logic in the nearest region before/after running your edge config. But it's definitely a datacenter round-trip to invoke them. Adding that much compute to an edge POP is a big lift; even firecracker gets heavy at scale. And security risk for executing arbitrary code since these POPs don't have near the physical security of a datacenter, small scale makes more vulnerable to timing attacks, etc.