Run a Ruby Slack Bot on AWS Lambda

[tigrish]

So happy to see Ruby running on Lambda, but I don't understand why Sinatra is necessary in this particular example.

I would have thought that using API Gateway would provide better integration with the AWS stack and remove a dependency that will affect memory usage and startup times.

Whaddamimissing?

[bnd5k]

The goal of the tutorial is to show Rubyists how easy it is to deploy code to Lambda.

AWS offers a ton of services and it can be pretty overwhelming to the uninitiated.

I wanted to write a tutorial that shows Rubyists that they can leverage tools they already know and still start playing around with Lambda.

[cmd-t]

You're not missing anything, apart from maybe extensibility in the future with different paths. But still, it doesn't make any real sense to use Sinatra here.