On: New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language a...

[wpietri]

This is great, but I'm ever so slightly disappointed that they called it the Lambda Runtime API instead of Common Gateway Interface. [1] It's not quite the same, but it definitely gives me an everything-old-is-new-again feeling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface

[fuball63 → wpietri]

Interesting you mention CGI; I built https://bigcgi.com (https://github.com/bmsauer/bigcgi) primarily to address the issue of "any language" in FaaS environments.

Seeing this takes away one of my biggest comparative advantages, but I'm happy to see that at least I was not wrong in thinking this feature would be important for developers.

CGI still has the advantage of being an open standard, locally testable, and not vendor specific.

[kitd → wpietri]

Hmm, I was thinking Service Component Architecture [1], but yes, I can relate to your 2nd point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Component_Architecture