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by happymellon 1321 days ago
I completely agree with you, and I didn't think that anything I said contradicted you.

Lamba works really well for reactive processing, such as supporting an API. You lose that benefit if you deal with something like Java because of the slow startup times gimps the processes.

Hence, running it in an environment which will be on constantly with consistent throughput that is just a pipeline 24/7. The scenario I've used it with was GIS and satellite image processing, which would have blown through the Lambda limits and with constant images being published meant that it was essentially processing 24/7.

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Do you happen to have a list of languages with lower startup times? I was trying to figure out what would work well for serverless development