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Discussion on: Full Backend Apps on AWS Lambda?

 
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Adam Gordon Bell

yeah, because your app is just starting up. So it depends on how fast your app is to startup, Java is bad at this. I'm using go, and its like 100 ms to start up in lambda i think.

I found this: mikhail.io/serverless/coldstarts/a...

But yeah, I'm just playing around. Here is my lambda app:
earthly.dev/blog/aws-lambda-golang/

I'm not sure about the real world downsides outside of toy app land.