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…

This blog post is one of a series looking at using Docker Actions in OpenWhisk to support extra runtimes.

Let’s look at writing serverless functions for OpenWhisk using Rust.

Rust is a systems programming language that…

Edge or Fog computing is gaining momentum in a plethora of IoT-enabled scenarios, and Cloud vendors are exploring opportunities to play a prominent role. One promising direction is to extend ‘serverless’ platforms…

OpenWhisk and The Serverless Framework

We’ve pleased to announce OpenWhisk integration with The Serverless Framework!

This isn’t going to be terribly complicated, but as I thought it was kinda cool, I thought I’d share it. I’m currently working through the OpenWhisk workshop, a Node School-ish set of problems/tasks to help you learn the basics of OpenWhisk. One of the problems has…

As I continue my journey of learning serverless and OpenWhisk, today I’m going to talk about another way to deploy your code — zipped actions. So what do we mean by zipped actions?