[LRUG] Ruby for AWS Lambda at last!

[Frederick Cheung]

> On 3 Dec 2018, at 15:08, Mooktakim Ahmed <mooktakim at fluxter.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I'm still trying to work out the best "heroku style" deployment solution on AWS. I keep thinking Fargate is the right option, but can't find any good howtos.
> 
> Ruby for Lambda looks good, will definitely try it out for some hobby ideas.
> I've looked at RDS Serverless offering, which sounds good until you realise the smallest instance is db.r4.large.


Isn’t that what aurora serverless is for?

I think you have to live with some spin up time if you don’t want to pay anything when not in use.

> Why can't they have a database offering which you are billed by requests and data storage, instead of having to pick an EC2 instance.
> 

Dynamodb will do that but non relational and quite a few sharp edges (but at least it does transactions now)

Fred

> Regards,
> Mooktakim Ahmed
> 
> 
>> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 15:01, Lee-Jon Ball <leejonball at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been waiting for this for 3 years... look forward to converting all the JS ones!
>> 
>>> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 09:34, Asfand Qazi <asfand at cloudership.com> wrote:
>>> https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-ruby-support-for-aws-lambda/
>>> 
>>> This is why, despite AWS being the worst engineered and most unsavoury cloud provider (e.g. their exploitative stance on open source) they continue to be so popular - they cater to the needs of their customers.
>>> 
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