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AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] A Serverless Journey: AWS Lambda Under the Hood (SRV409-R1)

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Cloud, DevOps & reliabilityDistributed systems

What it is

An AWS re:Invent 2018 session in which Holly Mesrobian and Marc Brooker explain how AWS Lambda is built, including its sandboxing, isolation and scaling architecture. It covers what happens under the hood when serverless code runs.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as the authoritative description of Lambda internals and isolation, by the engineers who built it.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “You can watch this talk to learn more”

    Explains Lambda sandboxing internals and isolation.

    staticassertion, 2019-01 · Recommendation · in “Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8”

  2. “Marc talking about Lambda internals”

    Talk on Lambda internals from reInvent 2018.

    appwiz, 2019-06 · Recommendation · in “Learning to Build Distributed Systems”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: aws lambda, serverless, isolation, firecracker, reinvent

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