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…

Interesting stuff AWS Lambda is news to me. I am interested now. Will look into this if it could work for us :slight_smile:

Hmm interesting. So you executing external elixir process through child node module process? [image] Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services In previous posts on this blog we’ve talked about how Lambda manages container lifetimes and how you can use custom JavaS…

i have a phoenix server running and i’m quite pleased with the results. Base invocation time for starting elixir via escript is around 180ms, but since you can now keep something around, although frozen, for 5 minutes invoking a server on lambda makes much more sense. This saves you a ton of time …

to add some context here, this means you can run ~100,000 invocations, or phoenix requests, for around $.04 per month in a highly available environment where you can forget about load balancers, patches, ssh keys, etc etc etc.!

Yes I totaly agree - the future is lamda architecure :slight_smile: There are also: [image] Cloud Run functions documentation | Google Cloud Documentation Small, single-purpose functions. Azure Functions | Microsoft Azure Create event-driven, s…

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…

Elixir on AWS Lambda

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mkunikow May 10, 2016, 7:23pm 6

Yes I totaly agree - the future is lamda architecure
There are also:

But I don’t know if you can run elixir there.