Recently someone asked me why I prefer using Go to build services instead of Python.

It struck me as an odd question, mostly because the way it was phrased and how I skimmed it made me think they were asking why I recommended using Python to build services, which is something I have never done. Once we got past my misunderstanding and I had apologized for not reading carefully, I took a few minutes to think about it.

I was curious what would happen with a time.Ticker running in an AWS Lambda function.

It was pretty obvious that the ticker wouldn’t tick while the container was hibernating, but what about when it woke up? Would a bunch of ticks happen if the container had been hibernating for a long time? Would you get a tick at all?