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v79

06/27/2022, 8:10 PM
Would there be much interest in a #serverless channel? I've often wondered if Ktor could compile to Javascript to run on AWS Lambda...
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jessel

06/27/2022, 8:11 PM
It doesn’t get much traffic, but you might check out #kotless
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Also ktor doesn’t have a node based server yet, only jvm and native. Though it’s a stated goal of ktor to eventually include node support for servers
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v79

06/27/2022, 8:13 PM
Yeah, I keep checking #kotless for updates, but the project seems to be moribund.
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Michael Langford

06/27/2022, 8:58 PM
Java is a Lambda target too.
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v79

06/27/2022, 9:16 PM
Sure, I do have some stuff running on Kotlin jvm lamba. I guess I need to check out graalvm though. Helps with the cold start problem, I've heard.
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Diego Marzo

06/28/2022, 8:25 AM
Liam this is a very interesting topic, I have been working in the last couple of years pretty intensively with AWS Lambda and at the very beginning I tried to use Kotlin. Even worked on this library: https://github.com/SuprGames/serverless-kdsl-generator
But the cold times were like really really bad, so I ended up migrating all my work to TypeScript, I wondered if the Javascript output could be a solution but never ended up putting all together because I'm not an expert in javascript and I got a bit confuse with JS compilation of Kotlin
Disclaimer, I worked with Kotlin (tried Kotless also by the way) like 2 years and a half ago, so don't know how are the cold start times at the moment
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James Richardson

06/28/2022, 8:50 AM
You may consider #http4k - it has tutorials on running in AWS Lambda and also with graal. https://www.http4k.org/guide/tutorials/going_native_with_graal_on_aws_lambda/
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v79

06/28/2022, 8:56 AM
Http4k does seem to be the most cloud - aware Kotlin framework under active development. But I'll need to learn pulumi or Terraform to make it work, I fear.
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James Richardson

06/28/2022, 8:59 AM
well, yes to a certain extent, but you can get it going by copying the examples - don't need to learn much to get the "hello world" examples going. you'll need one of those to do serverless in any case, most likely.
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mbonnin

06/28/2022, 9:26 AM
I'd be super curious about Ktor start times in native mode. I've been trying to run a simple Spring Boot Kotlin server in GCP AppEngine free tier (256MB RAM + autoscaling) and it's been challenging to say the least
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James Richardson

06/28/2022, 4:26 PM
Different technologies will give you vastly different start times - even without throwing serverless idiosyncracies into the equation. They can range from a few milliseconds in technology A to many tens of seconds for technology B for equivalent real-world apps, both kotlin, both JVM.
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dave

06/29/2022, 1:29 PM
Cold start is still an overall problem for JVM AWS lambda, but the package size and choice of serialisation tech will also have an effect - which is why we generally look at using Moshi/kotshi instead of Jackson and reflection. Jackson alone takes a while to instantiate - and with the kotlin reflect jar as well you're adding a decent chunk to the size as well. The funny thing is that even node lambdas suffer - you don't see it in the hello world benchmarks, but add a few npm dependencies and the overall size immediately starts to bloat... As a reference on size, a JVM http4k lambda with moshi we expect 8-12mb and graalvm makes that up to 30mb (but you also get the speed boost). IMHO attempting to configure GraalVM at all is a nightmare - with http4k and the graalvm lambda runtime you can sidestep that entirely (as long as you choose your other dependencies wisely 😉).
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mbonnin

06/29/2022, 1:33 PM
a JVM http4k lambda with moshi we expect 8-12mb and graalvm makes that up to 30mb
@dave this is the size of the binary, right? (8-12 mb for .jar and 30 mb for graalvm executable?) Do have any rough idea how that translates into runtime RAM usage?
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dave

06/29/2022, 1:39 PM
Ah - well that is an interesting question! Because the max memory setting also contributes to the performance of the lambda call! So although an http4k JVM lambda will run with 100-150mb ram (80mb for Graal) you might want to up the max memory to get better performance (Also - to answer your question - yes - that is the total zip file size you upload.)
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mbonnin

06/29/2022, 1:40 PM
Thanks for the insight!
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dave

06/29/2022, 1:45 PM
You're welcome. 🙃. I should also say that http4k on lambda is absolutely a proven technology that has been used in production systems. and it has the advantage that for us, Serverless is merely another backend, so you can seamlessly switch between - say- in memory testing, local server, fargate and lambda with zero code changes to your app.
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v79

07/04/2022, 6:31 PM
Just did a little test of infrastructure deployment using Pulumi, written in Java. Goodness, that framework needs a nice Kotlin DSL. It's all Java Builder classes just now and felt very clunky.
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dave

07/04/2022, 6:35 PM
Yeah - we use the Typescript version for precisely that reason...
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v79

07/04/2022, 8:17 PM
Just checked Terraform cdktf... Not much better.
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dave

07/04/2022, 8:25 PM
yes - they are all pretty bad (the java versions) 😂
previously we've done things like generate kotlin DSLs using kotlinpoet (for GRPC APIs) which wrap the java versions. that ends up looking quite nice and is pretty easy to do with a gradle plugin.
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v79

07/04/2022, 8:27 PM
I think I'll just ignore multi cloud and just write for AWS. It's only a personal project anyway.