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Comment · 9 years ago
I maintain a small open source library for managing payments websites that uses this architecture [1]. My Lambda costs have been about $0.04 per transaction.

Also you can provision AWS from the browser using a CloudFormation template and a Launch Stack URL [2].

[1]: https://github.com/christophercliff/flatmarket. [2]: https://github.com/christophercliff/flatmarket#automated-dep...

Comment · 9 years ago
An old stock art CD-ROM by Redouté.
Comment · 9 years ago
I developed a static site generator for e-commerce called Flatmarket: https://github.com/christophercliff/flatmarket

It lacks some of the features you'd get with a dedicated backend service but it's truly static and costs about $0.004/transaction on AWS Lambda (not including Stripe's take).

Comment · 10 years ago
I haven't, but even at this size the rendering is quite a bit slower than the calculation. For example, the delay on reload is almost entirely from rendering the shortest path tree.
Comment · 10 years ago
The geographic rendering APIs tend to be incompatible with the graphing algorithms and data structures. It's better to optimize your data on the server for algorithmic simplicity and convert to a render-friendly format at render time.

Also, immutability is great when you're juggling 1000s of lon/lat arrays.

Comment · 10 years ago
Yeah, that was an unpleasant surprise when I started plugging in the street map data :D

I'm experimenting with other algorithms and will post some (hopefully) more interesting results soon.

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