I am often tempted to engage container folk thought leading about #serverless. But slowly realizing I am not their target audience. It is other container people. They are trying to ensure their tribe they will still exist in the new world.
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By building Lambda as they have, AWS effectively stamped a big "DEPRECATED" on containers. People are freaking out accordingly. They should be.
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Replying to @southpolesteve
You're gonna be eating your words when AWS releases a serverless container offering. The benefits of containers are huge – can run anywhere (on my machine!) and fully packaged OS-level dependencies. Reproducibility is one of Lambda's downfalls right now
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Replying to @hichaelmart @southpolesteve
The ultimate step beyond FaaS will be invocations as a service. Sure, you can provide a function API, just like the Go Lambda runtime does, but really you're uploading an RPC server. Allow ppl to package that in a container and boot it fast, and voila.
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Replying to @hichaelmart @southpolesteve
This is, btw, what OpenWhisk already lets you do... it's just... IBM Bluemix hosted... and kinda with an ugly API right now. Add an AWS rocket boost to it, and with the right API :chefskiss:
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Replying to @hichaelmart
They might. AWS isn't allergic to money. I don't think it will invalidate anything I said. By building Lambda infra above container level AWS is giving themselves more land to build a bigger moat around their castle. I don't see them giving that up at the runtime.
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Replying to @southpolesteve
You're pitching serverless *against* containers – the two are compatible, you can have both.
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Really not trying to. I'm saying one is making the other unnecessary. The world will just move on.
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