Hi Tim, Impressive pet project you have. And what a way to deliver! Not only with fun features never built before, but also with a documented repo and a detailed screencast.
Congratulations. In my self interest, and indirectly for the Pharo community, I look forward to see more contributions like this from you. Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo 2017-08-10 10:47 GMT-03:00 Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works>: > I just wanted to thank everyone for their help in getting my pet project > further along, so that now I can announce that PharoLambda is now working > with the V7 minimal image and also supports post mortem debugging by saving > a zipped fuel context onto S3. > > This latter item is particularly satisfying as at a recent serverless > conference (JeffConf) there was a panel where poor development tools on > serverless platforms was highlighted as a real problem. > > In our community we’ve had these kinds of tools at our fingertips for ages - > but I don’t think the wider development community has really noticed. > Debugging something short lived like a Lambda execution is quite startling, > as the current answer is “add more logging”, and we all know that sucks. To > this end, I’ve created a little screencast showing this in action - and it > was pretty cool because it was a real example I encountered when I got > everything working and was trying my test application out. > > I’ve also put a bit of work into tuning the excellent GitLab CI tools, so > that I can cache many of the artefacts used between different build runs > (this might also be of interest to others using CI systems). > > The Gitlab project is on: https://gitlab.com/macta/PharoLambda > And the screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNNCT1hLA3E > > Tim > > > On 15 Jul 2017, at 00:39, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > > Hi - I’ve been playing around with getting Pharo to run well on AWS Lambda. > It’s early days, but I though it might be interesting to share what I’ve > learned so far. > > Usage examples and code at https://gitlab.com/macta/PharoLambda > > With help from many of the folks here, I’ve been able to get a simple > example to run in 500ms-1200ms with a minimal Pharo 6 image. You can easily > try it out yourself. This seems slightly better than what the GoLang folks > have been able to do. > > Tim > >
