I put a real search engine into a Lambda, so you only pay when you search
Modern serverless search is just an accounting trick. There’s a hidden pool of nodes behind the API, and the final bill is split evenly among all clients. There’s always a standby warm node waiting for your request - you just don’t see it.And you can’t get rid of it because scaling search engines is HARD (or at least search vendors want you to think so). You can’t just put one into a Lambda function. But what if you actually can?As someone who has hated Elasticsearch since version 0.89 (but stil...
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