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AWS Serverless Lambda Supports Response Streaming

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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The Future of HTTP Streaming

HTTP now supports this streaming capability, like content chunk encoding and the event streaming, like SSE. And if you have cases where you must want to return large payloads such as larger than six megabyte that that limit you have, you can do it today. You can break your application, the response into multiple sex megabytes. So you can download effectively more than that if you want. It's just, I think this six megabyte, they put it as a, as a cap to control the bandwidth in their network, right? Because imagine like having one gigabyte and just like, flooding the network with one gigabyte at once at the same time,. The problem with that is

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