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Putting it all together

Let's step through a real-life example of this. By the end, we should be able to have a Lambda function working using our own custom runtime. The example we will use is creating a function using lolcode, just because it's an easy example and it's hilarious. There is one limitation in that we will still need to write our bootstrap file in bash because lolcode doesn't support accessing environment variables, and, therefore, we wouldn't be able to process events. We will still need to bundle our lolcode interpreter because, understandably, this isn't included in the base Lambda execution environment. Hopefully, in keeping it simple, everyone can follow along to see what is happening.

First of all, we need to sort out ...