Everything you need to know about cold starts in #aws Lambda
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There are many blog posts about cold starts in AWS Lambda out there. I was doing some research and wanted to list the good ones here as well as some bullet points for quick insights into the topic.What is a cold start?A latency experienced when you trigger a function.A cold start only happens if there is no idle container available waiting to run the code. This is all invisible to the user and AWS has full control over when to kill containers.What is the affect of #cold-start?Frustrated users because of slow responsePaying more money for speed (sometimes)Timeouts in the calling function if not thought throughlyCaring about an operational concern which has nothing to do with youWhen should you care?If you are using a statically typed language like Java and C# (no shame in there! :D)If you (...)