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dundercoder on Aug 19, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Functions as a Service: Serverless Framework for D...

Is the goal of Lambda/OpenFaaS to basically be cgi/bin in a box? (Container) Would sandboxed cgi/fcgi be faster at forking than spinning up a container?

alexellisuk on Aug 19, 2017 [–]

That's not far off what's happening, but in containers. For a deeper dive on the mechanics of OpenFaaS checkout the intro https://blog.alexellis.io/introducing-functions-as-a-service... and then the watchdog README here - https://github.com/alexellis/faas/tree/master/watchdog

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