[LRUG] Apache OpenWhisk adds support for Ruby

[Riccardo Tacconi]

True, it is slower than a native solution. I forgot to mention that JRuby
could be used with AWS, although the JVM is has a low startup time. Plus,
it seems that most of the Rubyists do not like JRuby and prefer CRuby.

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 10:52, Asfand Qazi <asfand at cloudership.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 at 22:30, Riccardo Tacconi <rtacconi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Asfand, you can still run Ruby on AWS lambda, if you do not want to
>> manage Kubernetes and a serverless layer like OpenWhisk. You just need to
>> use a handler with a language supported by Lambda and then passed the
>> request to Ruby. The deployment can be done with Terraform, for instance.
>>
>>
> Absolutely, you can do that. I have in fact done that to run code in Ruby,
> supported by a Python shim that AWS Lambda supports.
>
> Not only did having to start up 2 interpreted languages add a huge amount
> of startup overhead (a couple of hundred milliseconds each), but the
> deployment artifact had to include not only the Ruby code, but the Python
> code, and an entire Ruby interpreter. It weighed in at around 50MB!
>
> Plus, the amount of work done in Python to pass the context to Ruby, and
> then receive it back and massage it into a state that can be passed back as
> a Lambda response, was more than the work done in Ruby itself.
>
> We need native support from the cloud providers for Ruby.
>
> Regards,
>     Asfand
>     cloudership.com
>
>
>
>
>> On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 11:17, Asfand Qazi <asfand at cloudership.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This is great news and hopefully other services will follow suit.
>>>
>>> The problem, of course, is that infrastructure management overhead does
>>> not leave the organisation since someone on the company payroll still has
>>> to look after it.
>>>
>>> Still, a step in the right direction.
>>>
>>> --
>>>     Asfand
>>>     cloudership.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, 10:54 Riccardo Tacconi, <rtacconi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Just in case you missed this news:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://medium.com/openwhisk/ruby-goes-serverless-apache-openwhisk-adds-native-support-for-ruby-7134faee14e
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Riccardo Tacconi
>>>>
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