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0 pointskaishiro5y ago0 comments

The simple answer is we don't. I've never even considered deployment time as a base metric, and I guess it's equally surprising to me that that's an issue. The fact that we can do all of our testing locally means that we rarely have to do the "log and redeploy" dance that the OP was referring to.

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wussboy5y ago· 1 in thread

Right. I definitely try and do as much testing locally as I can, but it still often takes me 10-20 updates to get everything working (missed an environment variable, permissions different in the cloud, blah blah blah). That’s usually a couple hours of my life i don’t get back.

kaishiroOP5y ago

Yeah, completely understand. I think the only issue we've run into that's forced us to go back to the trough with multiple re-deploys is very early on when we were negotiating better CORS patterns.

Other than that, the fact that you can now fully simulate not only the GCF endpoints, but also all of RTDB and Firestore locally - and with a simple debug toggle to connect to stage/prod (insert safety disclaimer here) is a really powerful paradigm.

Certainly not something you couldn't do similarly with Lambda/Dynamo/API Gateway using IAM roles or whatever - but it just feels very first class citizen with GC.

Also, as an aside - I wouldn't normally try and convert someone from AWS => GC, because I think you can be equally effective in either. I only dropped my original response because the OP specifically called out local emulation being an issue.

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