What is Apex?
Apex is a small tool for deploying and managing AWS Lambda functions. With shims for languages not yet supported by Lambda, you can use Golang out of the box.
Apex is a tool in the Serverless / Task Processing category of a tech stack.
Apex is an open source tool with 31 GitHub stars and 56 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Apex's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Apex?
Companies
26 companies reportedly use Apex in their tech stacks, including Assertiva Soluções, PandaDoc, and Riiid.
Developers
101 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Apex.
Apex Integrations
Apex's Features
- Supports languages Lambda does not natively support via shim, such as Go
- Binary install (useful for continuous deployment in CI etc)
- Project level function and resource management
- Configuration inheritance and overrides
- Command-line function invocation with JSON streams
- Transparently generates a zip for your deploy
- Function rollback support
- Tail function CloudWatchLogs
- Concurrency for quick deploys
- Dry-run to preview changes
Apex Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Apex?
Java
Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
