alt Hacker Newsfor most teams the pain was not missing features -- it was drift. you build against the emulator for months, then hit some edge case in prod where the S3 response format differed slightly or DynamoDB error codes were not qui
for most teams the pain was not missing features -- it was drift. you build against the emulator for months, then hit some edge case in prod where the S3 response format differed slightly or DynamoDB error codes were not qui
Drift feels inevitable here. AWS keeps evolving, so any local emulator will eventually diverge. At some point it’s more about how much drift you can tolerate than missing features.