I put a real search engine into a Lambda, so you only pay when you search nixiesearch.substack.com 24 points by shutty 6 hours ago
psanford an hour ago This is great!I have been using Quickwit as a low cost search engine on Lambda. It works very well for my relatively small and infrequently updated dataset.Unfortunately Quickwit devs have decided to not support the Lambda deployment mode going forward so eventually I'll need another option.
ncgl 2 hours ago "128MB default with up to 3008MB max. You can submit a support ticket to get 10GB RAM, but I was too lazy to argue with AWS support."Was this written before wide availability of 10g memory lambdas? shutty an hour ago Surprisingly, 3GB is a real practical RAM limit for aws lambdas in 2025: you can only have more than that if you submit a support ticket. But it's not really mentioned anywhere in the docs. ncgl 19 minutes ago https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/aws-lambd...Is what you're talking about a new thing? Or respectfully, are you just wrong?
shutty an hour ago Surprisingly, 3GB is a real practical RAM limit for aws lambdas in 2025: you can only have more than that if you submit a support ticket. But it's not really mentioned anywhere in the docs. ncgl 19 minutes ago https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/aws-lambd...Is what you're talking about a new thing? Or respectfully, are you just wrong?
ncgl 19 minutes ago https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/aws-lambd...Is what you're talking about a new thing? Or respectfully, are you just wrong?
This is great!
I have been using Quickwit as a low cost search engine on Lambda. It works very well for my relatively small and infrequently updated dataset.
Unfortunately Quickwit devs have decided to not support the Lambda deployment mode going forward so eventually I'll need another option.
"128MB default with up to 3008MB max. You can submit a support ticket to get 10GB RAM, but I was too lazy to argue with AWS support."
Was this written before wide availability of 10g memory lambdas?
Surprisingly, 3GB is a real practical RAM limit for aws lambdas in 2025: you can only have more than that if you submit a support ticket. But it's not really mentioned anywhere in the docs.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/aws-lambd...
Is what you're talking about a new thing? Or respectfully, are you just wrong?