KIkiechu·Jun 9, 2017
Heroku. That https://github.com/Miserlou/django-zappa looks awesome, but I didn't try it out yet.
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| Feb 2016 | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Mar 2016 | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2016 | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2016 | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Jun 2016 | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2016 | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2016 | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sep 2016 | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2016 | 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2016 | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2016 | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2017 | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2017 | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2017 | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| May 2017 | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2017 | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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9 sourcesZappa – Serverless Django on AWS Lambda
3 points · Open discussionMiserlou/django-zappa: Serverless Django on AWS Lambda and API Gateway
1 points · Open discussionMost of the issues described in the article are solved by projects like [0], [1] and [2]. [2] was particularly easy to work with (tried it with a standard installation of Django CMS and it was working very well, only in US regions) and the advantage is that you can still work locally as you would usually do, even keep a testing environment for CI on a managed server, and just replace the production server with it.
[0] https://github.com/serverless/serverless
[1] https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa
[2] https://github.com/Miserlou/django-zappa
In AWS Lambda Is Not Ready for Prime TimeBut there are already tools like
https://github.com/Miserlou/django-zappa
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-enterprise-lev...
plus something else that was featured on HN recently and I can't find or remember.
Amazon itself has a tutorial about the integration of the API gateway with Lambda at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/...
I saw an evangelist demoing it at an Amazon Summit a month ago. It's so time consuming and error prone that you don't want to do it manually more than once (not that he made any mistake).
So I won't say it's a corner case. Maybe it's too early to know what Lambda will grow into.
In Apex lets you build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions with easeZappa is pretty cool, I haven't had a chance to use it myself but want to find a project to apply django-zappa ( https://github.com/Miserlou/django-zappa ) on django-cms or wagtail... not too sure how that'd work out though.
In Use AWS Lambda to self-host the comments for your blogIt's interesting that there seem to be two parallel and opposite trends in applications deployment going developing right now.
One is containerizations, where developers are responsible for maintaining fat application stacks that can easily be redeployed and moved around.
The other is towards serverlessness with things like [Django-Zappa](https://github.com/Miserlou/django-zappa), where scalability is handled automatically by cloud providers.
My bias is quite clear - deploying apps should be easy.
In Scalable and resilient Django with KubernetesServerless Django on AWS Lambda
2 points · Open discussionHappy to answer any questions that people might have about this!
To head of a few questions at the pass:
Here are the hacks necessary to make this work: https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa#hacks
Here's how to avoid the cold-start problem: https://github.com/Miserlou/django-zappa#keeping-the-server-...
In Show HN: Zappa – Serverless Python/Django on AWS Lambda