<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,<div> Asfand</div><div> <a href="https://cloudership.com" target="_blank">cloudership.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 11:28, Riccardo Tacconi <<a href="mailto:rtacconi@gmail.com">rtacconi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 10:52, Asfand Qazi <<a href="mailto:asfand@cloudership.com" target="_blank">asfand@cloudership.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 at 22:30, Riccardo Tacconi <<a href="mailto:rtacconi@gmail.com" target="_blank">rtacconi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.</div><br></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>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.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">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!</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">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.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">We need native support from the cloud providers for Ruby.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4138569219622369698m_-8654255406161354628gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,<div> Asfand</div><div> <a href="https://cloudership.com/" target="_blank">cloudership.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 11:17, Asfand Qazi <<a href="mailto:asfand@cloudership.com" target="_blank">asfand@cloudership.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">This is great news and hopefully other services will follow suit.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Still, a step in the right direction.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">--<br> Asfand<br> <a href="http://cloudership.com" target="_blank">cloudership.com</a><br> </div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, 10:54 Riccardo Tacconi, <<a href="mailto:rtacconi@gmail.com" target="_blank">rtacconi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Just in case you missed this news:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://medium.com/openwhisk/ruby-goes-serverless-apache-openwhisk-adds-native-support-for-ruby-7134faee14e" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://medium.com/openwhisk/ruby-goes-serverless-apache-openwhisk-adds-native-support-for-ruby-7134faee14e</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4138569219622369698m_-8654255406161354628m_5014368329947136114m_1589644564064431012m_-6630460037408556262gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Riccardo Tacconi<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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