I see that it takes about 3 seconds to instantiate...
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Lars Ivar Igesund
11/10/2021, 9:57 AMI see that it takes about 3 seconds to instantiate the JS/TS prisma client (Prisma 1) on a GCP cloud function. Since these (and similarily cloud run instances) are recycled fairly often, is there any best practice advice on how to structure this to avoid such delays?
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manuel
11/10/2021, 10:05 AMI guess you're talking about cold starts?
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Lars Ivar Igesund
11/10/2021, 10:05 AM@manuel yes
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manuel
11/10/2021, 10:06 AMIt's a known problem with serverless. It's not prisma what takes that long, it's the spinning up of the worker in gcp.
manuel
11/10/2021, 10:06 AMYou can do workarounds if it's important to keep the function warm.
manuel
11/10/2021, 10:07 AMmake the function "ready to receive" time longer - meaning it should stay warm longer.
manuel
11/10/2021, 10:07 AMand ping the function with ah cron job like every 15 minutes or something like that.
manuel
11/10/2021, 10:07 AMI don't know much about your project but you could also look at cloudflares workers which have a cold start of basically 0ms.
manuel
11/10/2021, 10:08 AMif you're using next.js it would make sense to try them out as the changed to cloudflare in their latest version I think it's next.js 12.
manuel
11/10/2021, 10:08 AMmanuel
11/10/2021, 10:08 AMbut with gcp, aws, azure you'll always have the coldstart problem...
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Lars Ivar Igesund
11/10/2021, 10:09 AMOh, I didn't mean that the observed delay was in the cold start itself, but the actual instancing of Prisma. But I may have been too fast, it seems like the average instancing time is quite a bit better. Will have to observer for longer.
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manuel
11/10/2021, 10:10 AMif the function is warm it should take too long to instantiate
manuel
11/10/2021, 10:10 AMshouldn't
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Lars Ivar Igesund
11/10/2021, 10:11 AMCan an instance start running before it is warm so to speak? At lower CPU rates?
Lars Ivar Igesund
11/10/2021, 10:14 AMFor now this particular function isn't the issue, as it is a background task. I guess I will just have to do some additional monitoring on this.
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