Ask HN: Should we use Lambda (Google Cloud Functions) for our API? Hi HN, I need you. I'd like to know what is the current state of the art regarding the use of serverless paradigm for API endpoints. Context: We currently use Google Cloud Functions for our API. Our startup is young, and just the 2 cofounders are working on it. Our product is a consumer iOS app. The backend is something we don't have a lot of time to dedicate yet. ~1k DAU ~5k Daily API calls, Traffic spread between US, Europe, East Asia, Australia Over a classic webserver deployed on Heroku/EC2, Pros - easy to deploy - easy to maintain - easy to setup Cons - cold starts are becoming really long (~4/6 seconds) - we setup a pgbouncer to connect to Postgres instead of a simple Pooling client (and it will be more complicated for geo dns?) What do you think? |
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