cargo-lambda VS sam-rust-sqs-lambda-reader

Without a solid build and debug experience, achieving a quality Serverless Rust Developer Experience would be next to impossible. For the next two sections of my setup, I leverage Cargo Lambda pretty hard. Cargo Lambda is a project that brings a subcommand into the Cargo ecosystem for building and testing Lambdas locally. I could also use it for deploying, but I stick to CDK for that.

Tooling: I'll talk more about it below, but I love Cargo Lambda. I appreciate the fact that I can use SAM or CDK to build and deploy my code. And I've become a fan of using CodeWhisperer with VSCode to build my Rust Lambdas.

A few months back, the AWS SAM team released "beta" support for Rust using Cargo Lambda. Cargo is the crate/library manager for Rust and this additional subcommand brings in a lot of additional functionality. Per the Cargo Lambda team:

My journey through consuming an SQS Event with Lambda and Rust was enhanced when I embraced Cargo Lambda. Per the documentation:

I have been using this code for a while in my rust projects, mainly for backend development deployed on AWS lambdas with https://www.cargo-lambda.info/.

Has anyone experience with sending Traces from a Rust AWS Lambda (I've built mine with cargo-lambda) to Datadog APM? Sadly, there is nothing official yet and therefore also no examples I could try. Maybe some of you already have done it and could provide me with an example / tutorial?

Recently, I've been using cargo-lambda and cargo-lambda-cdk to deploy rust lambdas on AWS with the CDK.

Hey op, have you used cargo-lambda? I haven't, but I wonder if it might help with whatever usability issues you've run into.

Have you tried https://www.cargo-lambda.info ? What are your thoughts on it? (not my project)

As with most of my articles, there is a fully functioning repository attached. You can find the code hosted on GitHub. It is easily deployable with SAM and outlines the things you'll need to get going.