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 29 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
97 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!
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.
Serverless
Build applications comprised of microservices that run in response to events, auto-scale for you, and only charge you when they run. This lowers the total cost of maintaining your apps, enabling you to build more logic, faster. The Framework uses new event-driven compute services, like AWS Lambda, Google CloudFunctions, and more.
Azure Functions
Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in virtually any Azure or 3rd party service as well as on-premises systems.
Google Cloud Functions
Construct applications from bite-sized business logic billed to the nearest 100 milliseconds, only while your code is running
