From Source to Success

We’ll begin by exploring the process of going from Hark source code to successfully running a multi-thread process in AWS.

Here’s our source:

// service.hk
import(foo, pysrc, 1);

fn bar(x) {
  x + 1
}

fn compute(x) {
  a = async foo(x);
  b = bar(x);
  await a + b;
}

fn main() {
  compute(1)
}

Features:

• one imported Python function, foo
• two Hark functions, bar and compute
• each function takes 1 argument (assumed to be an int)
• foo(x) is called asynchronously (new thread)
• bar(x) is evaluated in the current thread
• a is waited for
• the sum foo(x) + bar(x) is returned

Here’s the Python source:

# pysrc/__init__.py

def foo(x):
    return x * 2

Running the program:

$ hark service.hk
4

Absolutely breathtaking.

Lots of things happened in the milliseconds it took to make that fantastic number four appear in our console. Before anything particularly interesting however, the Hark CLI tries to interpret our request.