api

The Hanami team & I, recently announced Hanami::API: a minimal, extremely fast, lightweight Ruby framework for HTTP APIs. Its minimalism, the small memory footprint and its performance, make Hanami::API a good candidate to build microservices. Today, we’re gonna deploy a small service on Amazon AWS Lambda. It’s an Amazon AWS product that allows to deploy an autoscaling HTTP service. You are charged for every 100ms your code executes and the number of times your code is triggered. »

Last month I gave the closing keynote at RubyDay 2015 by talking about Lotus and the future of Ruby. For the attendees, the most surprising part of my speech was about MRuby. It’s a minimal version of Ruby, that can be embedded in any system that supports C. I think that this technology can play a key role for Ruby in the next years. The simplicity of the language can be used within complex systems. »

Do you need a fast and lightweight JSON API app? It must be powerful, flexible, quick to develop and easy to deploy? There is a simple solution for all these requirements: to use Lotus gems to build it. Lotus is well known for full stack web applications (via lotusrb), but all the gems of this toolkit can be used as standalone components in existing Ruby applications. It this case we will compose together the router and the actions to create a JSON API app that returns informations for books. »