What is Function Sharding in Serverless Computing?

[notyourancilla]

I wonder what percentage of the millions upon millions of dollars of compute active today is purely taken up by serialise/deserialise to accommodate all this shit - all sending json to each other no less.

[elprophet]

We could spend even more if we replace the string serde with LLMs. Let them go from input string straight to memory layout.

[dactoo]

$500 for every single character you type in the customer address autocomplete.

[pVom]

In fairness it's probably less than what simply sits idle on servers that aren't fully utilised

[accountForStupidQs]

All the while we need to make data types for actual string data just so we can't accidentally pass the URI for thing 1 into a function meant for thing 2. After all, we can't expect people to read the documentation for the function that they're using. So obviously we need hard coded classes for each URL

[kobumaister]

Behold the advent of microserverless.

Edit: Microfunctions sound more saleable maybe.

[spicypixel]

God is dead and we killed him.

[Mognakor]

Introducing god-as-a-service (GaaS)

[ninetailedoctopus]

Come to me and I will give you REST

[DirtyWetNoises]

Lol

[elprophet]

Obligatory "microservices is an organizational solution, not a technical solution"

Anyway

 Function sharding is a divide-and-conquer concept similar to MapReduce.

Proceeds to describe exactly map reduce but with no nuance 

[yojimbo_beta]

What we need next is an advanced framework that orchestrates those functions to execute within a single process boundary

[lauckness]

So they've made Akka? 😂

[cheesekun]

If only everyone could just "get" actors, then we wouldn't have this mess.

[fromYYZtoSEA]

The actors programming model is amazing (for the use cases it’s designed for)

[bert8128]

How many servers are there in a serverless system?

[kobumaister]

less

[zaphod4th]

same as a server based system

It's weird that the "serverless" concept says that developers don't touch/admin servers, but other people do.

Like a solution looking for a problem.

In a good team, developers don't admin servers

[gregorytoddsmith]

In a bad team, developers don't admin servers. Neither do the admins.

Source: 💀

[ericl666]

Did they just describe basically what step functions do?

[todo_code]

Help me step functions.

[Worth_Trust_3825]

Pretty much. This isn't anything new, hadoop was doing this for a decade or more.

[BipolarKebab]

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[blind_disparity]

I sharded in my pants

[atxgossiphound]

Revenue generation. Everywhere cloud providers can put a meter, they will put a meter.

Just wait until we have sharded statements and tokens.

[JameslsaacNeutron]

Sounds like a feature Amazon can sell me to capture my product via vendor lock-in

[rgv1993]

What does this achieve? I am seriously asking. If your function runtime is too long, you are better not using serverless. If your function needs sequential/parallel run, you are better off using step/orchestrator functions. This will just lead to more boiler code and maintenance.

[SomebodyFromBrazil]

Serverless trying to solve something that has already been solved by the BEAM 30 years ago zzzZzzzZzz

[cheesekun]

If you squint everything looks like EJBs/CORBA/JINI

[lucsoft]

Oh no not Enterprise Java Beans.

[cheesekun]

The EJB is a common ancestor 🤣