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:
I've got one other practical reason. But I think it is not for public twitter.
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A *lot* of customers say they love the built in language model and just want better library capabilities. That’s not the same as containers and many do no want some container format model they need to deal with
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But like I’ve been saying, that’s just a tooling issue. They’d only need to “deal” with it in the same way they do zipfiles. You think most Java Lambda devs really know the structure of them?
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So what does a “container” format offer up? What does it solve?
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Reproducibility. You can look out there at all the blog posts with ppl explaining how to compile things for Lambda – I'm sure you've seen them. I mean – AWS Sam Local uses docker-lambda just to try to reproduce the env reliably!
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Yup and these are solvable problems without containers. I’m not sure they are the key here as they don’t really provide that much and introduce bloat and overhead themselves that need tooling
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Well the key needs to be something. As more and more ppl use Lambda for a wider variety of things, like ML, they're running into more and more issues with its restrictions and specificity.
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You're also locking ppl out who want to use other languages. Sure you could develop them yourselves. Have 50 different Lambda runtimes. OR one container runtime, and some libraries so they can just compile functions if they want – like Go.
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That makes the net new getting started experience way more complicated. Long term native support for all popular languages makes sense but we see a consolidation already happening around a popular few
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I do realize they can be much more, but you just described so many containers.
It'd be the same business model as Lambda is right now