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…

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…

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

There are many interesting things one can do with a ‘serverless’ platform such as OpenWhisk. One of the more exciting use-cases is in-flight transformation of data ingested from IoT devices, as part of a larger pipeline…

In continuation to the previous post where we introduce the principles of using OpenWhisk for serverless transformation of IoT data in motion, here we provide the ‘nitty-gritty details’ of setting up such a pipeline…

Sometimes it is helpful to develop and test an action locally before deploying to the cloud. In this article, I’ll describe how to test an Apache OpenWhisk action locally using Docker and a helper Python script. This is an advanced feature. For a more friendly…

In the following you will learn how to implement so called dockerized OpenWhisk actions using PHP.

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