[bastawhiz]

This is objectively false. In fact, it's the opposite of true. Lambda forces you to have a single entry point to your code that passes the details of a request to your application in a structured way. Wrap that in the http server of your choice in about fifty lines of code and you're done.

Or, you use something like Express inside Lambda with Serverless and adapting it to a long running server is literally just deleting the fifty lines of code that export your lambda handler. It couldn't be more simple.

Which is to say, you'll almost always have more trouble going from something else to Lambda and not the other way.

[nicoburns]

> Wrap that in the http server of your choice in about fifty lines of code and you're done. > Or, you use something like Express inside Lambda with Serverless and adapting it to a long running server is literally just deleting the fifty lines of code that export your lambda handler. It couldn't be more simple.

...which is all extra setup that you need to do compared to if you weren't using lambda, in which case you'd already be set up using something like express. To be fair, it doesn't like it'd be too much work to do the conversion. But it would still be extra work compared to say moving something running on express and deployed in a container to another VPS and/or container hosting provider which would likely require no application changes at all.

[bastawhiz]

There are services that offer compatible APIs to Lambda, in which case there's also no effort.

You could be switching from an integrated http server to using WSGI, which is almost identical to the effort I described. Who cares about the twenty minutes of work? It's "less portable" in such a trivial way.

[maxbond]

> This is objectively false. In fact, it's the opposite of true.

I apologize for the tangent but in your mind, is false sometimes but not always the opposite of true? Or is this just emphasis? (Genuinely asking, not being snarky.)

ETA: Thanks for clarifying.

[bastawhiz]

Something being wrong does not mean it is the exact opposite of what is the truth.