julianwood

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   by julianwood 6y ago

   Hi, I work for AWS in the Serverless team. Yes you can run Api Gateway and Lambda locally for testing. Have a look at AWS SAM. https://github.com/aws/serverless-application-model
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   by julianwood 6y ago

   Hi, I work in the AWS Serverless Team. Just to say, the performance of running a container image is pretty much the same as a function packaged as a zip function. We cache the container images near where the function runs so startup time is
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   by julianwood 6y ago

   This should make things easier if you're mature in container tooling. AWS SAM recently added much better support for Lambda Layers, and you can use makefiles etc. there. In fact, I would say building layers with SAM is probably the eas
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   by julianwood 6y ago

   There's going to be a lot more information coming about this over the next 3 weeks during re:Invent. A good outside-AWS blog post is this one: https://twitter.com/hichaelmart/status/1333837825222078466
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   by julianwood 6y ago

   Yes, with the new container image support, you can use the same docker or ECR images to build, and test your functions locally, and run them on Lambda. Consistent images is super useful.
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   by julianwood 6y ago

   We optimize and cache the image so cold starts times should be the same as with zip functions.