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by toomuchtodo 3861 days ago
You could use a scheduled cron task in Lambda to make requests to keep your API hot.
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posabsolute 3861 days ago
Yeah we thought about that, but is it reliable? We were really not sure we could always get rid of the cold start issue.
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twagner 3861 days ago
AWS Lambda function schedules are driven off the same fault-tolerant, highly available service that powers SWF. (So...yes, they're reliable :)
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anonymoushn 3861 days ago
Is keeping it hot with a cron job reliable though?
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toadkicker 3861 days ago
Give SNS/SQS a look for polling solutions for API Gateway. We got around it by having a health check call in our set up.
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beefsack 3861 days ago
You could potentially use that task as an availability test too.
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