We published Polls and Predictions to people watching the 2018 World Cup. We set the vote callback URL to a function on AWS Lambda.
It failed spectacularly during our load-testing because the ramp-up period was far too slow. We needed to go from 0 to 100,000 incoming requests/second in about 20 seconds.
We had to switch to an Nginx/Lua/Redis endpoint because Lambda was just completely unusable. It would have cost us $27,000/month to pre-provision 10,000 concurrent executions...
I tried Lambda for a use-case that I had in 2018:
We published Polls and Predictions to people watching the 2018 World Cup. We set the vote callback URL to a function on AWS Lambda.
It failed spectacularly during our load-testing because the ramp-up period was far too slow. We needed to go from 0 to 100,000 incoming requests/second in about 20 seconds.
We had to switch to an Nginx/Lua/Redis endpoint because Lambda was just completely unusable. It would have cost us $27,000/month to pre-provision 10,000 concurrent executions...
What is it that people actually use Lambda for?