nelhage / llama
Llama is a tool for running UNIX commands inside of Amazon Lambda. Its goal is to make it easy to outsource compute-heavy tasks to Lambda, with its enormous available parallelism, from your shell.
Most notably, llama includes llamacc, a drop-in replacement for gcc or clang which executes the compilation in the cloud, allowing for considerable speedups building large C or C++ software projects.
Lambda offers nearly-arbitrary parallelism and burst capacity for compute, making it, in principle, well-suited as a backend for interactive tasks that briefly require large amounts of compute. This idea has been explored in the ExCamera and gg papers, but is not widely accessible at present.
As you can see, Llama is capable of speedups for large builds even on my large, powerful desktop system, and the advantage is more pronounced on smaller workstations.
Llama needs access to your AWS credentials. You can provide them in the environment via AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID/AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, but the recommended approach is to use ~/.aws/credentials, as used by. Llama will read keys out of either.
