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by southpolesteve 3355 days ago
If you go to www.bustle.com or www.romper.com you get a JS app server side rendered by AWS Lambda and delivered through API Gateway (CDN in front of that). We do 50+ million unique visitors a month. Our team is super happy with the result and our AWS bill is smaller than it was on EC2. Cost was not a motivating factor for the switch but it is nice when the bill goes down.

It is most definitely ready. I gave a talk at Node Interactive last year that has some more detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4rvh_Iq6LE&index=2&list=PLf...
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abalone 3355 days ago
Very cool. At your scale have you noticed any problems with cold start latencies?

I know cold starts are an issue when services have a lull in usage, and that you can work around it. But I'm curious whether cold starts also happen when there's a surge in demand and AWS needs to spin up more containers or whatever it uses to host Lambdas.

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southpolesteve 3347 days ago
We haven't seen any issues. Most of our latency critical functions are called a lot. We do get significant spikes in traffic but our CDN does handle some of that load.
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