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Re:Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda by ramses0 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:51PM (#16161665)
The services are incredibly useful, incredibly powerful, but from a code + dev hygiene perspective it's safer to be able to completely test your code in isolation prior to deployment.

Many people are saying: "Just mock the AWS parts..." or "Provision from amazon on demand...", but there should be "common" mocks, or ideally "toy mocks" which can be used locally in order to verify the production system works how you expect it to, prior to deployment to that production system.

Basically, I'm uncomfortable making AWS a hard-dependency if I can't get something like it running locally for a "100 record use case"

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Re:Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda by cachesking on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:59PM (#16163111)
It would be nice if AWS provided mocks but the reality is that's there is more than one lib for creating stubs and mocks for every language. Additionally, I would assume that AWS want's to steer clear of making those types of decisions for the developer. The "what lib do I use for x" decisions that developers have to make.
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