A Lambda custom runtime for Go that eliminates the need for unecessary reflection nor having to run a RPC server.
Came about as a result of seeing the slightly dissapointing results in Lambda Performence Benchmarks 2018
- Custom Runtime boostrapper
- AWS SAM Support - pending aws/aws-cli#3789
- Serverless Framework Support
- Lambda Layers
- Use Go plugins for dynamic linking
I and a few keen contributors created serverless-golang back in Jan 2017, 11 months before official aws-lambda-go support was announced during ReInvent 2017. It used a go plugin approach based on the awesome work from eawsy team. The framework was used in production and quite flexible in that all Handers can be written into a single file.
Since moving on to the official aws-lambda-go, I always felt a bit uneasy with the use of RPC and amount of reflection for what I perceive to be a quite straight forward function call.
To address reflection, I submitted PR #69 to allow for a custom non-reflection based Handler to be passed. However there was still no way to side step RPC in the existing aws-lambda-go runtime.
Then came ReInvent 2018 and lambda custom runtimes. Thus this project was born.