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Back in 2019, we started thinking about how allow Lambda customers to use container images to deploy their Lambda functions. In theory this is easy enough: a container image is an image of a filesystem, just like the zip files we already supported. The difficulty, as usual with big systems, was performance. Specific...

As I’ve written about before, best of two and best of k are surprisingly powerful tools for load balancing in distributed systems. I have deployed them many times in large-scale production systems, and been happy with the performance nearly every time. There is one case where they don’t perform so well, though: when...