Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform

Re:Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform by rabbah on Sunday February 18, 2018 @01:46PM (#16407446)

It's great to see so many functions platform - in some ways it shows there's increasing interest, awareness, and adoption. The field is still quite young and there will be a lot of experimentation and exploration.

There's also a difference between deploying rapidly for local development (less is better) and actually running a functions platform at scale. AWS lambda reportedly handles over 2B lambdas a day (this was a year ago).

Not every platform needs that kind of scale, but it does put things in perspectives.

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Re:Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform by friendly_chap on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:08PM (#16407598)

Hi there!

Thanks for the encouragement. To be fair we at 1backend don't consider the field that new at all. It's just the old PaaS concept with some twists and reworded marketing!

I personally spent years building microservices platforms at various places and after years of not implementing my insights I decided now the time is right and people might adopt it given the current hype cycle =)

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Re:Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform by rabbah on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:53PM (#16407960)

Kudos.

I'd agree, old ideas, new contexts. The twists matter.

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