lakshmantgld

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║               AWS Lambda              ║                   Lolo Code                  ║
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║ - Cold start is an issue with Lambda  ║ - Ability to develop/test code locally and   ║
║ If we take the asynchronous use case, ║ the lack of DevOps capabilities is a         ║
║ cold start is definitely not an       ║ drawback, but as per the docs it is in their ║
║ issue, but only for time-sensitive    ║ pipeline. Also, considering the target       ║
║ use cases.                            ║ customers for Lolo, building functions in    ║
║                                       ║ the visual IDE could be a great start.       ║
║ - Complicated pricing. Lambdas are    ║                                              ║

lakshmantgld

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║               AWS Lambda              ║                  Lolo Code                 ║
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║ - Serverless, thus less operational   ║ - Same as Lambda, Lolo is                  ║
║ management required.                  ║ Serverless too, thus less operational      ║
║                                       ║ management required.                       ║
║ - Infinitely scalable - Developers    ║                                            ║
║ don't have to bother about adding     ║ - Visual Cloud IDE helps the               ║
║ any infra resources during sudden     ║ non-developers and beginners to easily     ║
║ outburst of traffic.                  ║ build backends for their application.      ║

lakshmantgld

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║                AWS Lambda                ║                 Lolo Code                ║
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║ - Lambdas are billed per invocation.     ║ - Pricing is straightforward. With Lolo  ║
║ Although the billing is complex, as      ║ you are not paying per invocation,       ║
║ it also depends on the memory used       ║ you pay for the amount of traffic you    ║
║ and the execution time.                  ║ need to process every second. Serverless ║
║                                          ║ application runs on Lolo compute         ║
║ - To make it even complex, if used       ║ unit (LCU). Each LCU has 256 MB RAM.     ║
║ along with API Gateway for HTTP          ║ Each compute unit costs €9/month.        ║

lakshmantgld

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║                AWS Lambda                ║                Lolo Code                ║
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║ - Use cases depend on the supported      ║ - Use cases depend on the supported     ║
║ triggers. Lambda supports triggers such  ║ triggers. Lolo supports triggers such   ║
║ as HTTP, SDK invocation, timer, etc.,    ║ as HTTP, web sockets, timer, etc.,      ║
║                                          ║                                         ║
║ - As mentioned, there are numerous use   ║ - Like Lambda, there are numerous use   ║
║ cases for Lambda, it is up to one's      ║ cases for Lolo too. It is up to one's   ║
║ imagination.                             ║ imagination.                            ║

lakshmantgld

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║                AWS Lambda               ║                 Lolo Code                ║
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║ - Lambda is cost-efficient, infinitely  ║ - Less to no cold starts in Lolo as the  ║
║ scalable, serverless, but let's accept  ║ container is live always and will not be ║
║ the fact that, they do have some        ║ killed in case of inactivity.            ║
║ drawbacks. One such drawback is cold    ║                                          ║
║ start.  Cold starts in Lambda           ║ - Fundamentally Lolo code is different   ║
║ are frustrating.                        ║ from Lambda as the application/function  ║
║                                         ║ container will always be running.        ║

lakshmantgld

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║               AWS Lambda               ║                 Lolo Code                 ║
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║ - Lambda is know for its infinite      ║ - Fundamentally Lolo Code is different    ║
║ scaling capability. Theoretically,     ║ from lambda as the application/function   ║
║ It can handle hundreds of thousands    ║ container will always be running.         ║
║ of events in a second. (Although there ║                                           ║
║ is a cold start associated with it)    ║ - As per the docs, One Lolo Compute       ║
║                                        ║ Unit(LCU) with 256 MB ram can handle 15   ║
║ - The first time you invoke your       ║ thousand events per second. If the        ║

lakshmantgld

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║               AWS Lambda               ║                  Lolo Code                 ║
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║ - Lambda's programming model is        ║ - Lolo supports application state and the  ║
║ stateless.                             ║ state can be retrieved and updated by      ║
║                                        ║ all the functions in the Lolo application. ║
║ - But lambda can access stateful data  ║                                            ║
║ from stateful services such as         ║ - Ran both stateful and stateless          ║
║ Dynamo DB and Redis.                   ║ application in Lolo, there wan't a huge    ║
║                                        ║ difference in the response time.           ║

lakshmantgld

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║ Criteria    ║            AWS Lambda           ║               Lolo Code               ║
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║ Chaining    ║ Does not have the ability       ║ Can chain functions and triggers      ║
║ of          ║ to chain functions.             ║ to build a serverless application     ║
║ Functions   ║                                 ║                                       ║
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║ Visual      ║ Does not have the Visual cloud  ║ Has the Visual cloud IDE where        ║
║ Cloud IDE   ║ IDE to drag and drop functions  ║ developers can drag-and-drop          ║
║             ║                                 ║ functions to create serverless        ║

lakshmantgld

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║                 FaaS                 ║                  iFaaS                 ║
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║ Single function with a small snippet ║ Application with a collection of       ║
║ of code.                             ║ functions that is chained together.    ║
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║ On triggered, the small snippet of   ║ on triggered, the application executes ║
║ code gets executed.                  ║ all the functions in the order of the  ║
║                                      ║ chaining/linkage.                      ║
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lakshmantgld

'use strict';

const AWS = require('aws-sdk');

// Set the Region 
AWS.config.update({
  accessKeyId: '***********',
  secretAccessKey: '*************',
  region: 'us-east-1',
  signatureVersion: 'v4'