Hello, Im a newbie in web industry So I have some confuse about `Ktor` and `kotless` (`<https://gith...

# ktor

[Sam]

Hello, Im a newbie in web industry
So I have some confuse about Ktor and kotless (`https://github.com/JetBrains/kotless`)
So why JetBrains build 2 framework at the same time Ktor and Kotless ? Any pros and cons for these framework?
Thanks

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

This is the first time I've seen that project, but it looks like kotless is designed specifically for implementing AWS lambda functions, whereas ktor is a complete server framework

[Sam]

I’m a newbie , so I really don’t understand why Ktor can not implement Aws lamdda functions ?
and What different between AWS lambda functions and server framework?
Thanks @Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Afaik you could definitely use ktor for that. But it's a lot more heavyweight, and might be seen as overkill. And kotless looks like it has some features that are particularly targeting serverless environments, like automatic warmup

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

(also I haven't done web dev in a while and so I don't really have any idea what I'm talking about - just inferring from the readme and the couple times I've played with ktor for fun)

[TanVD]

Kotless is not only web server, it also generates Serverless infrastructure. Basically it deploys itself into the AWS, while KTor is a web-server and have nothing to do with deployments 🙂