Going serverless with Ruby

By Shaiju E

Elevator Pitch

Serverless, the buzzword that we’re hearing nowadays and it will have a major impact on how we deploy software 5-10 years from now. It will save you money, time, and you will be able to easily build and deploy your applications. Is it possible to create a serverless function using ruby?. Let’s see!!

Description

This talk gives the audience an intro into serverless architecture and discusses some of its advantages. It delves into the details of how serverless architecture works and explores the idea of running them in ruby.

Topics covered:

  • Introduction to serverless
  • Pros and cons
  • How to write serverless code with AWS Lambda & google cloud function code in development with the serverless framework
  • How to deploy code to AWS Lambda
  • How to connect to AWS Lambda through AWS’ API Gateway
  • Current options for deploying Ruby on AWS Lambda
  • Live example using Ruby

Notes

For last 2 month, I have been working in the serverless framework with node.js and also playing with serverless ruby options in spare time.