I have to imagine there is a business reason for the slow adoption of languages/runtimes in Lambda. They're still only supporting Node v6.10 as well, which is far outdated. They should at least be keeping up with LTS for security sake.
Before releasing Go support, it felt like they're simply creating arbitrary friction to keep people on their platform. By expecting your code to export a handler, rather than listen on a port, that has a specific signature, you end up coupling yourself more to the AWS platform. But it also causes a ton of friction for adoption, since testing is more difficult than it should be.
Now with the release of Go, it feels even more that they're putting up these arbitrary gates without a rhyme or reason. How come Go can listen on a port, but other runtimes need to export a handler function? Why did they choose to rely on a Go-specific protocol instead of a common one?
It's frustrating, because I really want to use it (from an ops perspective), but I think my team is going to ditch the proof of concepts we've done because of the friction we've experienced. I'm sure there are valid engineering reasons for these choices, I just don't see them.
Before releasing Go support, it felt like they're simply creating arbitrary friction to keep people on their platform. By expecting your code to export a handler, rather than listen on a port, that has a specific signature, you end up coupling yourself more to the AWS platform. But it also causes a ton of friction for adoption, since testing is more difficult than it should be.
Now with the release of Go, it feels even more that they're putting up these arbitrary gates without a rhyme or reason. How come Go can listen on a port, but other runtimes need to export a handler function? Why did they choose to rely on a Go-specific protocol instead of a common one?
It's frustrating, because I really want to use it (from an ops perspective), but I think my team is going to ditch the proof of concepts we've done because of the friction we've experienced. I'm sure there are valid engineering reasons for these choices, I just don't see them.