Lambda is a cloud functions service, a part of AWS infrastructure. It allows to build serverless architecture based on different platforms (Python, Node.js, etc.). Another Lambda application is to spread the load over the infrastructure to reduce the pressure on each individual part.
At Pickio we’re using Lambda to process images outside of the primary backend instances. It helps to decrease request-response times to the API and overall load.
In this article I will show you how we’re deploying our Lambdas to AWS using GitHub Actions.
Prerequisites
- AWS account with admin/root access
- GitHub repo where Lambda functions will live
- aws-cli installed…
Disclaimer: this is not a how-to guide. I have plans on a more in-depth article about setting up everything from this here. This time it’s more of an overview of what’s been done.
Hey, folks. Let’s talk about AWS costs and Lambda today.
At Pickio we started this year with a bunch of optimizations on both costs and performance.
Somewhere around the end of 2019 I had a post on my Facebook where I was talking about moving from EBS to EKS. Docker, k8s, and all the fancy stuff, y’know. Recently we moved from EKS to direct k8s orchestration via kops. This move alone cut the cost of our AWS from $380 to around $290 monthly. Only EKS price is about $75 + all the additional resources and services it requires. Yup, these…
Nick Skriabin
CTO & Co-Founder at Pickio
