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Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin

You're reading from   Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin Develop scalable and cost-effective web applications using AWS Lambda and Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993708
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Caveats while scaling Serverless applications

There are a few things that need to be kept in mind when dealing with scaling Serverless applications. In this section, let's have a brief glance at some of them.

Lambda execution life cycle

In order to understand the challenges and subsequently the workaround to scale lambda functions, we need to understand how a lambda function gets executed.

As discussed in Chapter 2, AWS Serverless Offerings, an invocation of the lambda function takes place in a sandbox on an Amazon Linux AMI machine. The details on how and where this sandbox is provisioned and configured is left to Amazon's discretion. The sandbox provisioning for lambda involves the following steps:

  1. Provisioning...
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