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Markus Thömmes in Apache OpenWhisk

Oct 11, 2016

Uncovering the magic: How serverless platforms really work!

Working with a serverless platform like OpenWhisk almost feels like practicing black magic. You insert code and it just executes that code as often as you want and need. You never hit deploy. You never worry about scaling. You…

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Vincent Hou in Apache OpenWhisk

Mar 21, 2019

How to make Jenkins pipeline jobs triggered by pull requests for Apache projects

Markus Thömmes in Apache OpenWhisk

Apr 20, 2017

Squeezing the milliseconds: How to make serverless platforms blazing fast!

In the previous article Uncovering the magic: How serverless platforms really work! we’ve seen that serverless platforms like OpenWhisk hide a huge amount of complexity to deliver the promises made to…

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Daniel Krook in Apache OpenWhisk

Apr 21, 2017

Five minute intro to open source serverless development with OpenWhisk

At the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference I gave a five minute summary of serverless development, introduced the Apache OpenWhisk open source project, and showed how to get started with OpenWhisk on…

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Priti Desai in Apache OpenWhisk

Jun 20, 2018

Deploying OpenWhisk on Kubernetes

I have been running an experiment from past couple of days to deploy OpenWhisk on Kubernetes to create an easy and quick playground. I am newbie 👶 to Kubernetes and I guess that’s the reason I took one and half day to have a successful deployment otherwise GitHub repo…

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Justin Halsall in Apache OpenWhisk

Sep 13, 2018

Ruby goes Serverless! - Apache OpenWhisk adds native support for Ruby

Ruby has finally become a first class citizen in the Serverless world now that Apache OpenWhisk has added native support for the Ruby Runtime. Thanks to the awesome work from Kei Sawada and the OpenWhisk…

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Alex Glikson in Apache OpenWhisk

Feb 14, 2017

Extending OpenWhisk to the IoT Edge with Node-RED, Docker and resin.io

Pushing ‘serverless’ to the…

rodric rabbah in Apache OpenWhisk

Feb 8, 2017

Serverless HTTP handlers with OpenWhisk

In this article, I’ll describe a new OpenWhisk feature: web actions. In short, you can now write HTTP handlers using OpenWhisk actions.

An action is “code” (e.g., a function) that runs in response to an HTTP request. As a reminder…

David Breitgand in Apache OpenWhisk

Jul 5, 2018

Lean OpenWhisk: Open Source FaaS for Edge Computing

This Blog is co-authored with Pavel Kravchenko as part of our work at IBM Research — Haifa*.

Unless you have been living in a cave for the last few years, chances are that you’ve encountered Function-as-a-Service…

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rodric rabbah in Apache OpenWhisk

Feb 13, 2017

Web Actions: Serverless Web Apps with OpenWhisk

Web Actions: Part 2

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