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Lambda does have a learning curve, and so does deployment safety. Many Python deployment strategies are kinda interesting because they simply always re-download

Lambda does have a learning curve, and so does deployment safety. Many Python deployment strategies are kinda interesting because they simply always re-download the packages. Lambda doesn't allow this. And they were close to a solution. They have a CI pipeline which can and should be doing the packaging for them. The Linux image only has to be close enough to Amazon Linux, not exactly Amazon Linux. Heck, even CodeBuild uses Ubuntu [0]. It also doesn't help that there's a lack of information or simply misinformation out there. Sometimes I think frameworks with a very specific use-case like Zappa do more harm than good. Yes, it's easier to get running, but it doesn't give you a general purpose solution and makes you think everyone is just hacking around the mess. Serverless' serverless-python-requirements is a good solution if you can't be bothered having the CI do the packaging/artifact creation. [0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/build-env-ref-available.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/build...

traverseda 8y ago
I'm not going to stop hacking around this mess until this mess is open source. It's a personal preference, but at that point I'll be willing to pitch in and start fixing this mess.
- scarface74 8y ago
  What do you need to be open source? Using Codebuild, you just put a buildspec.yml file in the root directory of your source directory containing a few import statements, and a list of wildcard file specifications to tell CodeBuild what to include in your zip file artifact. It's not like there is a lot of "vendor lock in" for a 10 line yml file.
  - traverseda 8y ago
    >It also doesn't help that there's a lack of information or simply misinformation out there. Sometimes I think frameworks with a very specific use-case like Zappa do more harm than good. Yes, it's easier to get running, but it doesn't give you a general purpose solution and makes you think everyone is just hacking around the mess. I'm generally unwilling to learn skills that only apply to a proprietary environment. If aws was using openwhisk, I'd probably code directly against that instead of using a hack like zappa.
    - scarface74 8y ago
      I didn’t suggest Zappa. Zappa is not the AWS solution. The AWS Solution is using CodeBuild. With CodeBuild you would just specify the bash commands you want to run to create your zip file with a yml file. But you’re already talking about using lambda so you’re already using something proprietary. On a deeper level, if you work for a company, you’re probably learning a lot of business specific stuff anyway that’s not transferable.

traverseda 8y ago

I'm not going to stop hacking around this mess until this mess is open source. It's a personal preference, but at that point I'll be willing to pitch in and start fixing this mess.

scarface74 8y ago
What do you need to be open source? Using Codebuild, you just put a buildspec.yml file in the root directory of your source directory containing a few import statements, and a list of wildcard file specifications to tell CodeBuild what to include in your zip file artifact. It's not like there is a lot of "vendor lock in" for a 10 line yml file.
- traverseda 8y ago
  >It also doesn't help that there's a lack of information or simply misinformation out there. Sometimes I think frameworks with a very specific use-case like Zappa do more harm than good. Yes, it's easier to get running, but it doesn't give you a general purpose solution and makes you think everyone is just hacking around the mess. I'm generally unwilling to learn skills that only apply to a proprietary environment. If aws was using openwhisk, I'd probably code directly against that instead of using a hack like zappa.
  - scarface74 8y ago
    I didn’t suggest Zappa. Zappa is not the AWS solution. The AWS Solution is using CodeBuild. With CodeBuild you would just specify the bash commands you want to run to create your zip file with a yml file. But you’re already talking about using lambda so you’re already using something proprietary. On a deeper level, if you work for a company, you’re probably learning a lot of business specific stuff anyway that’s not transferable.