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Rethinking Serverless with FLAME

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Date Published
Author
Chris McCord
Word Count
3,231
Company Posts That Month
7
Language
English
Hacker News Points
404
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No
Summary

The text discusses the limitations and complexities associated with serverless/FaaS solutions for auto-scaling applications, such as additional queues, storage, glue code, and rewriting apps in proprietary JavaScript. It introduces a new pattern called FLAME (Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution), which allows developers to elastically scale specific parts of their app code without managing servers or rewriting the entire application. The Elixir flame library implements the FLAME pattern, allowing applications to be treated as lambda functions where modular parts can be executed on short-lived infrastructure. This approach removes the problem of scaling complexities and provides a better way to elastically scale applications.

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Serverless 19 542 137 78 -46%
Real-time 2 2,223 570 156 -11%
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