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!
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.