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It seems like having local lambda emulation would be useful as a companion to this. If I ever do some lamba development I'd love to see integration with emulators like https://github.com/HDE/python-lambda-local, https://serverlesscode.com/post/emulambda-testing-aws-lambda..., or https://ashiina.github.io/2015/01/lambda-local/ (some or all of these may work already, I can't tell just by eyeballing the projects from a distance)

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This would have been useful for me during development..

But honestly, the big problem is the API Gateway. The product is a mess, the docs are a mess, and the whole system is kind of insane. Lambda is awesome, but API Gateway still seems half baked. 90% of my development time was fighting with APIGW. There are some kind of crazy hacks in there (base58 encoding cookies, regex based on b64 encoded status codes) that shouldn't have been necessary.

Still, now that the system works and it's easy to use, I think this is ready for real usage. And I'm sure Amazon will get their stuff together for future releases of APIGW. They probably weren't completely anticipating that people would use it in this way.

Yeah, I fought with APIGW for a while in the beginning because I had to make scripts to create my route structures to I could call Lambda in a fully RESTful manner for my data model. A lot of stuff just didn't work when calling from the AWS CLI. After a lot of trial and error and a lot of bug reporting I got to a script that would quickly build my APIGW for me because that web interface is horrible.

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