Feature request: bring/build your own runtime, or something to that effect

[joincamp]

My personal use case is that I'd like a runtime that is capable or running fb-prophet. I did a proof of concept for running this as part of the deployable package (250MB uncompressed on lambda), and was able to get this working by culling a lot of the unused multiple-levels-deep libraries (You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle). I just learned about pywren, and It seems like a perfect fit for my use case of prophet on lambda (thousands of requests to kick off once an hour, embarrassingly parallel, short lived).

Maybe this is already something that would be easily accomplished by the current code here, but I'm new to the python ecosystem(but not software development), so I'm still trying to wrap my head around conda, virtualenv, fabric, etc.