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Paul Johnston
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"Serverless scaling" in this context means it can scale from zero to *concurrency limit*. That's fine... sort of. But to be truly #serverless you need..

... rapid cold starts

At present, Cloud Run cold starts are too long (unless I'm missing something) to be truly serverless
Yes, it depends on the underlying container here and yes the developer is responsible for that but even the "Hello World" takes too long for me (well over a second).

In the Lambda world it is in the few hundreds of ms for a well written usable function (even over API Gateway).
Yes I'm holding it to a higher standard. It doesn't mean it's not usable though. I think it has real promise. Lots of opportunity to build some amazing solutions with it.

Things you should not do: dump existing containers into it ... KNOW YOUR TOOLS!
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When you go into the airport lounge in Atlanta to find no vegetarian food except salad leaves, olives and egg sandwiches. Nice
No. Being a vegetarian is not unusual, it is a thing and you are looking at one of them!
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I say pasta salad. It's dressing with some pasta in it. But it's vegetarian!
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Paul Johnston
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Google Cloud Run: first impressions are positive. I've only played with it a little, but I'm relatively impressed. The ability to scale the underlying runtime seems (at first glance) very good. The initial cold start is an issue. For lots of workloads that's not a major problem.
If you're looking for an AWS Lambda replacement, Google Cloud Run is not that, although it's pretty close. However, if you're looking for a something that looks pretty close, but uses Dockerfiles, then this is it.
If you're not able to use AWS, then Google Cloud Run is a really good step forwards. Well worth a look I think.
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Paul Johnston
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Yesterday during an Open Space at ServerlessDays Atlanta on tech and mental health, I said to the group that I suffered from burnout and suffer from Generalised Anxiety Disorder. I had just been on stage and delivered a keynote in front of hundreds of people. #mentalHealth
I'm still recovering from burnout (I'm not sure when you know when you've recovered) and only knew I had GAD last year after leaving AWS. I've been suffering with GAD probably since I was under 10. I'm 42.
It was probably the first time I acknowledged to a group of strangers that I had a mental health issue, as in many ways I don't see myself as having one. But it struck me that I do, and that my story would be helpful to at least one other, so I shared it.
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Matt Weagle
@mweagle
1/ Twead incoming...
2/ I have some #serverless localhost v. cloud Dev n' Testing thoughts. As a teaser:
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Brett Andrews
@AWSbrett
I'll be live-tweeting in an hour as members of the AWS #Serverless Apps Repo team demo the apps they've built this week during the #sarhackathon 🐿
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Ajay Nair
@ajaynairthinks
2019 Wish : The #serverless community practices what it preaches, and focuses the conferences/talks/articles on the value gained, rather than the technology and concepts. In fact, we probably need to have some basic rules for serverless content. For example -
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Gal Bashan
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#serverless advocates - we are doing something wrong. I have been putting this off for a long time but I really think it is important and has to be said. Warning: LONG thread.
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Time to talk more about Dark (darklang.com), and making coding 100x easier.
Our aim with Dark is to make it 100x easier to code, for existing developers. (Side quest: making it 100x easier to code will _also_ make it easier for way more people to learn to code).
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