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Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience poor?
Living in my team's bubble i thought everyone runs or tries to run parallel environments: prod, staging, dev, but also an individual (person) or feature env. Why? Because there's no emulator or documentation that will teach you real behavior. Like others have said, AWS seems out of this world. Just like GCP and Azure i might add. Some things you don't expect and they mesmerize you how smart they are. Some you expect and you can't fathom how come you're the "only" one screaming. Random thought: this is how i ended up logging all I bumped into into "Fl-aws" https://github.com/andreineculau/fl-aws
Back to the point: reality is that many build their AWS environment (prod) manually, maybe they duplicate once (dev) also manually, maybe they use some automation for their "code" (lambda) but that's it. This implies it's practically impossible to run end-to-end tests. You can't do that in prod for obvious reasons and you can't do it in dev either - you have many devs queueing, maybe dev is not in sync with prod etc.
My team ran cloudformation end-to-end. We actually orchestrated and wrapped cloudformation (this is yet another topic for not using terraform etc) so that if smth couldn't be done in CFN, it would still be automated and reproducible. Long story short, in 30 minutes (it was this long because we had to wait for cloudfront etc) we had a new environment, ready to play with. A total sandbox. Every dev had their own and it was easy to deploy from a release artifact or a git branch to this environment. Similarly you could create a separate env for more elaborate changes to the architecture. And test in a live environment.
Finally to your question: how do you test end-to-end?
If we talk about lambdas because that's where the business logic lies in a "serverless" architecture, then the answer is by calling the system which will eventually call your lambda/s along the way. If your lambda ia sitting behind AWS gateway, then fire an http request. Is it triggered when objects land on S3? Then push some object to S3. How do you assert? Just the same - http response, S3 changes etc. Not to mention you can also check cloudwatch for specific log entries (though they are not instant).
With this type of a setup, which sounds complex, but it is not since it is 100% reproducible (also from project to project - I had several), adding this proxy-to-my-dev-machine lambda would mean I can make local changes and then fire unit AND end-to-end tests without any changes pushed to AWS, which is the main time/energy consumer imo.
PS: sorry for the wall of text. Like i said i recently realized that the development realities have huge discrepancies, so i tried to summarize my reality :)
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Build Scalable Applications with AWS Lambda and Go
We had great success with https://github.com/apex/gateway
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Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience poor?
I write Lambda functions in golang. In dev I run the function as local http server. In prod I map a custom domain to the lambda, routing is done internally to the function. API Gateway is only used for the top level route. This workflow is enabled by https://github.com/apex/gateway
In principle I try to avoid Amazon Web Services that lock me into the platform. So, for my dev stack I run a few other containers to give me the equivalent of the prod environment, RDS (MySQL or PostgreSQL), ES (OpenDistro), S3 (Minio), and SES
What are some alternatives?
aws-lambda-runtime-interface-emulator
aws-lambda-go-api-proxy - lambda-go-api-proxy makes it easy to port APIs written with Go frameworks such as Gin (https://gin-gonic.github.io/gin/ ) to AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
faasd - A lightweight & portable faas engine
cloudfront-autoindex - AWS Lambda to work around index.html S3/CloudFront mess
lambda-functionurl-dynamodb-sam-go - Use Lambda Function URL to write a Serverless app backed by DynamoDB
docker-lambda - Docker images and test runners that replicate the live AWS Lambda environment
serverless-offline - Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project
awslogs - AWS CloudWatch logs for Humans™
sst - Build modern full-stack applications on AWS
up - Deploy infinitely scalable serverless apps, apis, and sites in seconds to AWS.