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Ask HN: Should we use Lambda (Google Cloud Functions) for our API?

1 pointsby woogleabout 7 years ago
Hi HN,<p>I need you.<p>I&#x27;d like to know what is the current state of the art regarding the use of serverless paradigm for API endpoints.<p>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&#x27;t have a lot of time to dedicate yet. ~1k DAU ~5k Daily API calls, Traffic spread between US, Europe, East Asia, Australia<p>Over a classic webserver deployed on Heroku&#x2F;EC2,<p>Pros<p>- easy to deploy<p>- easy to maintain<p>- easy to setup<p>Cons<p>- cold starts are becoming really long (~4&#x2F;6 seconds)<p>- we setup a pgbouncer to connect to Postgres instead of a simple Pooling client (and it will be more complicated for geo dns?)<p>What do you think?

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