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Discussion on: Sending Email with Netlify Functions

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Jenna Pederson

Thanks for the feedback, Tim!

Such a great question too. I have one live project (other than this playground) using a few functions and with not much traffic, so I haven't had a lot of experience with where it falls down. One thing I found (for that particular implementation) was that since there was not much traffic hitting those functions, they would occasionally fail/timeout as they were spinning up. Another use case I've heard they are not well suited for is long-running processes because of this low timeout value.

I started digging into this because I wanted to learn more about that specifically so that I can make better decisions on whether to go down this route for future projects. Stay tuned for a future post on!

And I'm all ears on where you find it tricky or where it doesn't work well, beyond the debugging process.