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functions-framework

The Contract for Building New Function Frameworks

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165GitHub stars
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The Contract for Building New Function Frameworks

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-01-24 18:16:50 UTC to 2021-04-20 05:06:17 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 182021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 12021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 19

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Jan 182021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 252021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 12021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC000
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Apr 192021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Ah yes, good point. I neglected to cover that. Well, in a nutshell: * FunctionsFramework allows us to open-source the parts of the runtime not tied to the Google Cloud Functions hosting environment itself, meaning it should be possible to port it to other hosting, such as Kubernetes, Google Cloud Run, even FaaS products from other vendors. * Procs work, but they're just objects. We'd still need some kind of interface to name them, load them, etc. Otherwise we'd be limited to, e.g., setting a special constant or global variable to the proc, which is messy, makes testing harder, etc. * Speaking of which, a FunctionsFramework library gives us a place to put the unit testing library, tools to spin up a functions server locally for testing, and whatever tools developers might find useful in the future. For reasons such as these, Google's overa
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ll Cloud Functions team decided to produce framework libraries for all supported languages. There's a contract and everything that our Ruby gem follows. (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework)
In Designing a Ruby Serverless Runtime

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