On 12 Aug 2017, at 17:26, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:

hi Tim,

That is..... AWESOME!

Very nice delivery - it flowed well with great narration.

I loved @2:17 "this is the interesting piece, because PharoLambda has serialized the execution context of its application and saved it into [my S3 bucket] ... [then on the local machine] rematerializes a debugger [on that context]."

There is a clarity in your video presentation that really may intrigue outsiders. As a community we should push this on the usual hacker forums - ycombinator could be a good starting point (but I'm locked out of my account there).
An enticing title could be...
"Debugging Lambdas by re-materializing saved execution contexts on your local machine."

cheers -ben

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk@gmail.com> wrote:
This is cool Tim.

So what image size you deployed at the end?

2017-08-10 15:47 GMT+02:00 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