I did a few experiments with running on lambda via exrm because I wanted to avoid writing .js as much as possible. Here is what I found. the invocation time is slow for 128MB ram, need to make sure you have enough ram since ram and CPU are proportional. 128MB execution time is ~ 2-4 seconds. per…

Maybe someone can explain to me because I don’t get it. Why use AWS lambda when Elixir can just start a supervised task and perform your work for you? What kind of work would AWS lambda be better for where a lightweight process doesn’t fit better?

i suppose the biggest benefit for me is that the server goes away and I can continue to use elixir. Let’s say I want to process a file. Old way: i setup a server and let it run for ever waiting for some request. New way. someone dumps a file in an S3 bucket which generates an event that starts my…

This is not easy task what AWS lamda can do :). You can run the same code on one machine and 1000 machines if needed depends on load. But as developer you don’t care where it runs and how many machines you will need. The best part you only pay for work AWS lamda do for you , not machines you use f…

Just to extend the options you named, there is also Iron Worker which works quite similar to the mentioned cloudfunctions: https://www.iron.io/platform/ironworker/ With IronWorker you have more power on the environment where your code runs in using Docker.

There are some options :slight_smile: GitHub - anaibol/awesome-serverless: ☁ A curated list of awesome services, solutions and resources for serverless / nobackend applications. · GitHub … https://serverless.com/ https://developer.ibm.com/openwhisk/ Cloud Run functions | Google Cloud https://azur…

I have a prototype up here: GitHub - jschoch/exlam: elixir in AWS scaffold · GitHub I’m working on another project to test it with and hope to make some improvements after I get something else working.

I don’t see Erlang mentioned as a supported language on AWS lambda docs page. Please explain! What is the workaround or is Erlang now supported!?

First I am not convinced that elixir/erlang is good for short running process which aws lamda is. There are many workarounds to run not supported languages: You can pack elixir in docker container http://maltmurphy.com/2015-05-17-lambda-ecs-batch.html You can run any executable [image] …

Can you elaborate on the downsides? What makes elixir not well suited for lambda? If you boot the erlang VM in the node.js module initialization it is plenty fast and you can avoid the VM boot tax. I can get < 10ms response times with my prototype. The upsides are that you can use elixir’s great…

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ccverak January 8, 2017, 11:18am 12

Any news about this?