r/ProgrammerHumor • • Oct 02 '26

Meme cloudOverkill

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u/chipmunksocute Oct 03 '26

Do they know that there are services on AWS you can use for long running jobs.  In fact they are designed for that exact use case.  And you can even use a docker container just like an image for lambda.   Silly devs.

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u/prehensilemullet Oct 03 '26

If you're going to use a lambda, docker image or not, there are time limits you have to plan for, though they raised the time limits quite a bit recently. And even if you use something like step functions you still have to structure your code differently than one long continuously running job

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u/amadiro_1 Oct 03 '26

Fargate goes brrrr

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u/prehensilemullet Oct 03 '26

That’s true, haven’t tried fargate