Function instances should stay alive for a certain amount of time. But you will pay the cold start price one way or another, so naively using Spring Boot is probably not a good idea. Spring Boot Native might help here, but I haven't tried it yet.
But is the web server spun up and kept up somewhere magically? Another poster mentioned something about an ECS task. The reason I am asking is I genuinely don't understand, I thought lambda as an abstraction was all about something which spins up and down when finished.
We had a small course in university on esoteric programming language. Each of us had to select a language (Brainfuck, Piet and a few others) and play around with it. I chose Piet and had a lot of fun with it, but to be honest, my small example application was not really aesthetically pleasing. I guess you have to be a Piet expert to make art with it.
The best thing is that it does not seem to hard to extend KOReader to your liking (e.g. by writing plugins). On the other hand, I've had a hard time understanding the the actual Lua code (most likely because of my lack of experience using Lua though!).
What's really missing is a good way to browser by metadata (e.g. author, series or even your own custom tags). However, there seem to be some progress here [0].
I do often use this feature but sometimes fear I missing out because of some deliberate decisions by the author. Not sure if that worry is really warranted.
Designing Data Intensive Applications is really good, because it gives you an good overview of data systems. I had the feeling I don't have to understand all the details yet I would learn a lot.
My own name is actually only used in the very country I live in. Unexpectedly, my daughter's name is apparently also used in Arabic countries, it means something like "Gift from Allah".
"Gift of god" is a pretty common name cross culturally. [Allah is not a name; it's just the ordinary word meaning "god".] The Hebrew version is Nathaniel [rather, that's the Anglicized form of the Hebrew version]; is your daughter's name similar?
Matthew includes the name YHWH as opposed to the ordinary word referring to any god (el). It would be more analogous to the many Greek names along the lines of Apollodorus / Diodorus / Asclepiodorus. This makes it unlikely to have an Arabic cognate.
It also appears to be based off a nounal stem "gift" as opposed to a verbal stem "give".
But yes, it appears to be a fundamentally similar name. There are more; Jonathan combines the explicit YHWH reference with the verbal stem of Nathaniel.
Although I had absolute no idea what I was doing when we played around with Agda in university, it was kind of fun constructing a few very basic proofs. It kind of felt like smashing some buttons until it worked. The Emacs integration with all the Unicode goodness was really something.
The worst thing is how often developers almost fatalistically accept that testing sucks. I don't blame them though because improving the test infrastructure has little short-term business value or so they say.
You could spend your entire life improving test infrastructure. There's clearly a cut off point where the investment stops making sense but it's hard to know when.
The investment calculation is quite complex and many of the variables require guesses. A lot of returns on automation work are not positive.
The irony is that is absolutely does have business value. Unfortunately, it's easier to quantify the problems you've had on prod than the problems you've prevented on prod, so people tend to measure against the former.
