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Our application needs to run plugins written by users.

My general impression is "just use AWS Lambda", but I haven't found any articles by anyone authoritative who shares this opinion. Articles I've found by anyone not using Lambda describe a nest of VMs and containers that approximate Lambda with greater complexity, cost, and room to mess up.

There's also the option to only run user code on user machines, which may work for us.

Can you share any in depth articles by anyone who has solved this problem at their own company?

When I was a kid, we had a dishwashing machine. It wasn't good enough that you could just put the dishes in after eating, you had to pre-clean them. I don't remember exactly how long it took, but it was at least 30 minutes.

As an adult, I've never owned one, and since becoming responsible enough to clean my dishes frequently, I've never seen the point in owning a dishwasher. I don't think I'm getting sick or anything from my hand washed dishes.

Is there real value in a dishwasher that I'm not understanding?

My father is an expert in an industry that 95% of Americans consume from, but know very little about. He currently runs a fairly popular blog where he gives advice and answers questions. I've discussed ways he could monetize it, but he says that he enjoys helping people and if he were to accept sponsorships or affiliate programs he would stop being objective and wouldn't want to do the work anymore.

Even if he ran banner ads, he wouldn't want them to be for products he wouldn't personally recommend.

Have you solved this problem or seen it solved in a review site that you use?