aglikson

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   by aglikson 7y ago

   Yet another attempt to define what "serverless" means, in the broader context of recent technology trends.
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   Serverless = Distraction-Free(medium.com)

   2 points by aglikson 7y ago|2 comments
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   Running Firecracker VMM on GCP with Nested KVM(medium.com)

   1 points by aglikson 8y ago|0 comments
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   by aglikson 8y ago

   I guess some people called it 'platform as a service', few years back :-)
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   by aglikson 8y ago

   I guess most of tech articles in general often pay more attention to technology details than to its cost-effectiveness (or even TCO) for certain classes of workloads. If your workload is a 'traditional' web application, saturating
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   by aglikson 8y ago

   If you expect a steady load of hundreds of requests per second - maybe API Gateway + Lambda is not the best solution. The use-case in the article did not have such load targets. Lambda is not a silver bullet..
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   by aglikson 8y ago

   Actually we have started doing some initial exploration of such an architecture. But don't have results we can share yet. Maybe in one of the follow-on blog posts :-) I agree that it could make a lot of sense in some cases.
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   by aglikson 8y ago

   The serverless.com framework helps addressing #2,#3,#5. There are other frameworks that help addressing #1. Not sure what kind of compatibility or incompatibility do you have in mind for #4 - you could access RDS from Lambda if you really w