We are successful !
Ruby is now a first class citizen in Serverless word!
Petition
I've originally launched serverless-ruby.org in March 2018 as a petition to bring attention of Serverless providers (like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions) that Ruby is a viable and popular enough language to be supported as a next native programming language in their FaaS stack. Developers were able to sign the petition by their Github. In the end the petition was signed by 1602 Developers !!!
Ruby FaaS
It was a long way but now AWS Lambda supports Ruby allowing Ruby folks to do not only background processing stuff with Lambda functions, but also run Sinatra Ruby webserver or thanks to Jets build a full scale Ruby based project. On top of that thanks to Lamby you can even run Dockerized Ruby on Rails applications on AWS Lambda!
You don't believe me? Well this entire website runs Ruby on Rails under Lamby on AWS Lambda with a full Redis caching, DynamoDB database and Github Oauth2 integration! You can check out source on Github
That's why I've decided the petition page can retire in peace as best of what could happened already happened and turned it into Ruby Flow style post platform where you can submit your Serverless Ruby articles, howtos, T.I.L notes, ...
Timeline
- 9th March 2018 serverless-ruby.org Petition website was launched
- 12th March 2018 I gave a talk in London about types of Ruby microservice architectures mentioning the petition after which the petition signs blasted
- August 2018 Paulo Arruda created faastRuby first dedicated Ruby serverless provider. It's no longer an active platform but still Paulo deserves a HUGE RESPECT for all the effort in pushing Ruby this direction
- 29.11.2018AWS Lambda supports Ruby (Big thanks to Alex Wood)
- November 2018 xiangshen-dk creates first AWS Lambda Sinatra app
- May 2019Ruby on Jets is anounced by Tung Nguyen a Rails like framework fully on AWS Lambda and Ruby
- 8th December 2020 Ken Collins announces Lamby in his article
- January 2020 This website is turned into Lamby based serverless Ruby on Rails post forum
Anything I've forget ? Anything I got wrong ? Please contact me or create PR