Aws Lambda Ruby On Rails

When ruby support on aws lambda was announced yesterday i was so excited about it that i had to try it right away.

Aws lambda ruby on rails.

I was thrilled to learn that i can finally use ruby with lambda but using sinatra as an example feels wrong. Having played with the new ruby support for a few hours i m feeling confident we ll be spending less time with node go and python. We ve been using lambda for a while at honeybadger and i have longed to be able to write our functions in ruby. Moving to lambda reduced processing time by 300 in some cases.

Parallelization for the win. This article is part of our ruby on aws lambda blog series. Today aws is excited to announce ruby as a supported language for aws lambda. There is a lot of other great information on lambdas on both the aws lambda page and on the ruby on jets website.

The processing includes ocr creating preview images splicing the pdf and more. These events range from making an api call to saving a file to updating a database. A recent project had us migrating an existing pdf document processing system from rails sidekiq to aws lambda. Now it s possible to write lambda functions as idiomatic ruby code and run them on aws.

You only pay for the execution of the function. Essentially jets functions as a framework similar to rails but now that aws lambda supports ruby functions it allows you to build serverless applications. Aws lambda is a function as a service platform that stores and executes your code when triggered by an amazon web service aws event. If you want to build an api with it you would want to have api gateway do all the routing and request handling.