Over the last years my Pocket reading queue got longer and longer. It actually dated back to stuff from 2013. Over the time a realized I would never ever be able to keep up with it again.
Some days ago I found out that Daniel (mrtazz) developed a nice tool named pocketcleaner which archives too old Pocket entries. I thought “Hey great, that’s one solution to my problem, but how to execute it?”. People who know me might already have an idea :) I don’t like servers in terms infrastructure that I have to maintain. So I thought AWS Lambda to the rescue!
And here it is: An Ansible playbook which setups a Lambda function which downloads, configures and executes the Go binary. It can be triggered by a AWS event timer. No servers, just a few cents per month (maximum!) for AWS traffic and Lambda execution costs.
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