alt Hacker NewsDoes the ~7 minutes get amortized over sustained load (due to container reuse)? I feel like the article doesn’t consider the shape of the traffic and workloads in its analysis of why lambda is not a good fit.
Does the ~7 minutes get amortized over sustained load (due to container reuse)? I feel like the article doesn’t consider the shape of the traffic and workloads in its analysis of why lambda is not a good fit.
In general I think the answer to your question is yes. If you have sustained load, the environment will often be reused. When that happens, there is little “idle” time that you’re billed for.
I don’t mean to imply that Lambda Web Functions are a bad fit for every workload, just that they are a bad fit for our workload as a result of this behavior.
Edit: I made an update to the post to hopefully clarify this.