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How do you deploy in less than 5 minutes? Our serverless deployments are running into 20 minutes now, and it’s becoming a bit unfunny.

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We use golang lambdas, binaries are built in our CI pipeline. Build stage takes ~10 seconds, tests (integration + unit) take ~30 seconds. We use AWS SAM for generating our CFN templates, we package and deploy using the AWS Cloudformation CLI and this takes the remaining 3-4 minutes.

I didn't include post-deployment end-to-end tests in the 5 minute figure, but technically speaking, we do deploy that quickly

How does it take 20 minutes? Do you deploy everything at once? Most of our APIs take a few minutes (depending on what kind of a deploy it is).

We have a fair number of endpoint, so due to the CloudFormation 200 resource limit per stack, we end up creating about 10 different stacks that frankenstein themselves onto a main API gateway stack.

Obviously not using cloudfront...might be the slowest service I’ve ever seen to deploy

Try deploying changes to google cloud loadbalancers. Updated within a few seconds, but changes will take seversl minutes to be applied. The first time i was scratching my head why my changes don‘t work as expected...

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