🔄 Continous Lambda Cold Starts Analysis

TL;DR: 👀 to https://maxday.github.io/lambda-perf/

to see the benchmark result:

Why?

There are already a lot of blog posts talking about Lambda Cold Starts performance per runtime but I could not find any always up-to-date information.

That's why I decided to create this project: data is always up to date as the benchmark is running daily.

How does it work?

Architecture diagram

Step 1

A ultra simple hello-world function has been written in each AWS supported runtime:

nodejs12x
nodejs14x
nodejs16x
nodejs18x
python37
python38
python39
dotnetcore31
dotnet6
go1x
java11
java8
ruby27

in addition to two custom runtimes:

go on provided
rust on provided.al2

Each of this function is packaged in a zip file, uploaded to a S3 bucket.

Step 2

Every day, each function is freshly grabbed from S3, deployed and invoked 10 times as cold starts.

Then the REPORT log line containing the init duration, max memory used and other useful information is saved to a DynamoDB table.

Step 3

After all these invocations, all information stored in Dynabo DB is aggregated and a new JSON file is created, then commited to this repo. ie: https://github.com/maxday/lambda-perf/blob/main/data/2022-09-05.json

Step 4

A static website, hosted on GitHub pages here: https://maxday.github.io/lambda-perf/ fetches this JSON file and displays the result in a (nice?) UI

Step 5

Hack/Fork/Send PR and create your own benchmarks!

Disclaimer

⚠️ this project is not associated, affiliated, endorsed, or sponsored by any companies nor have they been reviewed tested or certified by any company.

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