[LRUG] Apache OpenWhisk adds support for Ruby

[Asfand Qazi]

I used JRuby too once - I had to use a 1GB function, instead of the
smallest 128MB one to be able to run it! And I had to ship the entire JRuby
.jar files with my app! So same problems, more painful.

Regards,
    Asfand
    cloudership.com



On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 11:28, Riccardo Tacconi <rtacconi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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