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…

OpenWhisk’s Python runtime includes popular third-party libraries like requests, scrapy and simplejson. Developers don’t have to manually install packages to use those libraries.

Combining OpenWhisk’s function-as-a-service approach with the ubiquity and strength of Python 3 provides developers exciting new opportunities. Python is a clean, expressive programming language which has seen a substantial surge in popularity because…

I’m part of a small team that has developed a unique and fun weather app called Weather Gods.

Please note that the following article has been posted on behalf of NeuroApplied, a young Israeli startup I have been working with throughout the last couple of weeks and months.

The OpenWhisk build process now publishes to DockerHub the images of the containers that your actions will run in. Exploring these images is helpful in understanding the art of the possible within OpenWhisk. For instance…