Is there something to bridge the gap between serverful and serverless? Is there a good enough framework that lets me write Rails-like code and have it compile into a bunch of serverless jobs?
I found Zappa to be a bit peculiar - so I’ve been toying with `serverless`, which isn’t without its faults either.
However, with Zappa, you begin by downloading a bunch of wheels (pre-compiled python packages) as dependencies for your project - I guess this helps with the packaging / deployment problem, but it’s also bloat that you have to think about - and quite frankly a bizarre introduction to a framework that made me feel less than confident that it’s not duct tape app the way through.
With serverless, the wsgi plugin, and the python packaging plugin, you’re compiling wheels on a rocker container which means you’re requirements remain “yours”, you compile only and exactly what you need, and it looks a bit more like “normal Python”.
The downside of `serverless` is that you don’t get the “task” integration built in - so you pretty much need to wrap boto3 with your own api that mimics celery/rq/etc.
Also, as is the case with any solution I’ve found is that they’re peculiar to work with if you write your python code as a package - i.e. with a setup.py. You end up in a strange place with “-e .” not behaving well in a requirements.txt or a Pipfile that is used to package for Zappa.
