# jorgebastida/gordon

λ Gordon is a tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas using CloudFormation

Repository: https://github.com/jorgebastida/gordon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gordon
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2019-04-11T19:16:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3973, "days_push": 2701, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2026, forks 132 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:06.838374+00:00)

## What it is
Gordon is a Python CLI tool for creating, wiring, and deploying AWS Lambda functions using CloudFormation. It supports multiple runtimes, local execution, and integrations with API Gateway, CloudWatch Events, DynamoDB Streams, Kinesis, and S3.

## Use cases
- deploy aws lambda functions with cloudformation
- build serverless apis with api gateway and lambda
- run lambda functions locally before deploying
- wire lambda triggers from kinesis and dynamodb streams
- manage multi-stage multi-region lambda deployments
- schedule lambda functions with cloudwatch cron events

## When to choose
- you want a boilerplate-free, yml-configured CloudFormation-based Lambda deployment tool
- you need multi-language Lambda support (Python, JS, Java, Go, Scala) with local testing
- you prefer 100% CloudFormation-native resource creation

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained tool - the last release was April 2019
- you prefer modern alternatives like AWS SAM, Serverless Framework, or CDK
- you need Python 3.6+ support since it targets older Python versions

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: deployment, infrastructure-as-code, cli, serverless
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools, backend
- platform: cli, python, cloud
- tags: aws-lambda, cloudformation, serverless-framework, apigateway, kinesis, dynamodb-streams, devops

## Member repositories
- jorgebastida/gordon (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:06.838374+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:59:44.184000+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jorgebastida/gordon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:06.838374+00:00, sha b287cede7993)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/gordon/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:39:50.335340+00:00, sha 0b9ca1528990)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.