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Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022? | Dec 2022
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Using their Python library called chalice was really easy to make cron style lambdas in Python in my experience. https://github.com/aws/chalice
Running Containers on AWS Lambda | Apr 2022
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Not Django, but AWS has a product focusing on this - Chalice https://github.com/aws/chalice
Show HN: Hookdeck – an infrastructure to consume webhooks | Aug 2021
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You can easily do this with AWS Lambda and the boto3 library. You get logging, metrics and alerting if you want too. AWS has a generous free tier.

For python devs, this is a great framework to easily create and deploy them - https://github.com/aws/chalice.
Web Scraping 101 with Python | Feb 2021
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AWS Lambdas are an easy way to get scheduled scraping jobs running.

I use their Python-based chalice framework (https://github.com/aws/chalice) which allows you to add a decorator to a method for a schedule,

  @app.schedule(Rate(30, unit=Rate.MINUTES))
It's also a breeze to deploy.

  chalice deploy
Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend | Nov 2020
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(Python) AWS chalice (https://github.com/aws/chalice). Nice wrapper for lambda that lets you write "Flask" like routes.
AWS Services You Should Avoid | May 2020
For Python based Lambda REST API development, check out Chalice: https://github.com/aws/chalice/

Very Flask like and includes CLI components to automate deployment. Even includes simple decorator based event mapping for S3, SQS, scheduled tasks, etc.

Show HN: I built a newsletter that sends you cheap weekend trips from your city | Dec 2019
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Thank you. The front end is hosted with Netlify and the back end uses Chalice: https://github.com/aws/chalice It also uses Chrome Puppeteer for scraping.

Chalice is super awesome. I'm planning to write a blog post on the tech.
Serverless: 15% slower and 8x more expensive | Sep 2019
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For the record, you can easily abstract that away or include it in your own code with frameworks like Chalice [0]

[0] https://github.com/aws/chalice
The Case of the Broken Lambda | Sep 2018
If you are frustrated by the complexity of packaging Python-based Lambda applications, I highly recommend checking out Chalice: https://github.com/aws/chalice. It's very well engineered and drastically simplifies the process (for example, it handles pre-built wheels properly, so you can cross-compile your Lambda (build and deploy it from a Mac, etc).

Actually, we just open-sourced a template for using Lambda with Chalice and Terraform that automates this and many other relevant steps: https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/chalice-app-template. It's not 100% directly applicable to this use case yet, because SAM/CloudFormation templates don't have a good way to manage bucket event subscriptions. But domovoi (https://github.com/kislyuk/domovoi) can manage S3 event subscriptions (direct or bridged through SNS, SQS, or SNS-SQS) in an idempotent declarative (non-IaC) process.

Full Guide to Developing REST API’s with AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda | May 2018
AWS provides their own "Python Serverless Microframework for AWS" called Chalice: https://github.com/aws/chalice

I have yet to deploy a production service with it, but the development experience has been positive.

Things I’ve learned using serverless | May 2018
That was interesting. Two questions:

1) Is there a problem with python, or a problem with flask? Isn't this what chalice is for? https://github.com/aws/chalice

2) How are you dealing with cold starts?

I learned stuff from this post, but I would have learned more with some background about the workload etc so I could reason about what generalizes and what doesn't.