cloud-function-latency-spikes

Using child_process to run code inside a Cloud Function seems to produce significant latency spikes around require statements.

Details

Check out this blog post for details and stats.

To Reproduce

• Clone the repo
• Run npm install
• Make sure you have the gcloud SDK installed
• Run npm run build to build the auto-generated libraries this will use during testing
• Run npm run deploy:function to push the code as a Cloud Function to your default project
• Create a .env file in the repo with CLOUD_FUNCTION_URL= whatever the url of the function is that you just created
• Run npm run run:function to run the test against the function and gather results