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Comment by brilliantcode | Hacker News Reader

Has anyone been able to get Chalice to work?

https://github.com/awslabs/chalice

Basically, I'm interested to know how the Swagger template file will look a like. It'd be nice if you could use Swagger to quickly create REST api on Lambda stack.

Being able to quickly generate scaffold CRUD REST api on Lambda behind Authentication + DynamoDB would be an absolute killer app.

I'd imagine that Azure is not far behind. But one thing that's killing it for Azure is the Visual Studio IDE. Edit my ASP web app, one click deploy to Azure from inside VS is a killer app as well.

I really wish AWS came up with their own IDE where it would be tightly integrated with AWS. Imagine if you could write code and deploy it instantly without setting things up yourself through the AWS console (not that it's bad or anything).

I'm biased saying this, but Chalice is a half-baked rip-off of Zappa[0], deliberately nerfed by Amazon to lock you into the AWS stack.

If you want to see an example of how easy it is to use Zappa + Lambda + DyanamoDB, you can check out Zappa BitTorrent Tracker, which can use S3 or DynamoDB as a back-end.[1]

As a bonus, Zappa has had both local and remote environment variables as a feature for months - although it's pretty cool that this new announcement can use KMS, although that will of course mean more vendor-lock in if you choose to go that route.

[0] https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa [1] https://github.com/Miserlou/zappa-bittorrent-tracker

(I work for AWS) I've been livestreaming building a zappa app on twitch.tv/aws ! daysuntilreinvent.com is powered by zappa!

I will say that chalice wasn't meant to copy zappa. Chalice and Zappa both started in Jan of 2016. Zappa has way more features and is a wonderful piece of software.

One thing Chalice does well that I'd love to see in Zappa is automatically figuring out what kind of IAM policy/permissions you need by analyzing the code.

I suspect an Amazon IDE is coming. They did acquire[1] Cloud 9 not too long ago.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv...

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