[LRUG] Ruby for AWS Lambda at last!

[nicolas alpi]

For those interested, we wrote an introduction blog post on how to use and
deploy a Ruby app to AWS Lambda

https://www.cookieshq.co.uk/posts/how-to-build-a-serverless-twitter-bot-with-ruby-and-aws-lambda


Nic

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On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:52 PM Mooktakim Ahmed <mooktakim at fluxter.co.uk>
wrote:

> @asfand would be great to see a how to.
>
> @frederick - aurora serverless sounded like the right solution, but the
> minimum size is db.r4.large
> What would be great is to have something like dynamodb where you create a
> database, and not worry about what instance its on, you get charged for
> usage only.
>
> Regards,
> Mooktakim Ahmed
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 15:38, Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>     Asfand
>>>>     cloudership.com
>>>>
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