We're happy users of both Serverless Framework as well as SAM (AWS). Serverless Framework offers a pretty rich set of plugins which provides a lot of extensibility out of the box including function warming, webpack, instrumentation and many others.
Shameless plug alert: we also dogfood IOpipe, our own dev tooling for Lambda. IOpipe[1] gives us near realtime errors, logs, tracing, and CPU/mem profiling capabilities that we're used to having in "traditional" development environments.
At IOpipe, our vision is to eliminate risk for developers and operations teams building serverless applications by providing developers with best-in-class tooling to develop, debug, and monitor their applications.
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We're bringing visibility to serverless applications built on AWS Lambda. With tools such as profiling, tracing, metrics, errors, and logs, we are making development faster and easier. We help developers get back to writing code.
As a solutions architect, you'll be responsible for educating prospects and customers on serverless best practices. Giving demos of how to best instrument, monitor, and observe serverless applications. Helping with integrating our open source libraries into customer's code, and creating content to help enable companies to move to serverless. As well as helping our customers with education and best practices around serverless architectures.
We're backed by top VCs, we're fully remote, and are a leader in the serverless space.
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The cold start times have been quietly getting better over time on AWS Lambda. I just checked some python Functions and I'm seeing cold starts take around 80ms on average for a simple function.
Hopefully they have a solution for connecting to RDS from Lambda without incurring the huge cold start time and other problems of having the Lambda inside the VPC. Ideally it would be something like PgBouncer with a security group that only allows connections from your Lambda instances.
GCP has a semi-hacky solution that provides the ability to connect to your managed dbs from your Cloud Functions; one would hope that AWS can at least match that soon.
If you're in a rush, IOpipe[1] already has Python support offering profiling, tracing, and other debugging and observability tools for AWS Lambda. Co-founder of IOpipe here, feel free to ask anything.
