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Discussion on: Full Backend Apps on AWS Lambda?

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Garret

An entire backend on a single lambda would have high cold start times that I would recommend just using fargate if you would rather use containers.

Otherwise I suggest using API Gateway & a lambda per route.

If you want to take a step further into the AWS land I would highly suggest using appsync and VTL templates to have a fully serverless graphql API with 0 lambdas.

My work currently does API Gateway and Lambda approach, but if I could rewrite I would 100% use appsync and VTL templates.

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Adam Gordon Bell

Hey Garret,
What types of start up times do you see and what language are you using?

How is fargate different or better than a Provisioned Concurrency lambda?