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This is a follow up blog post of How to run OpenWhisk actions on Knative?

Let’s look at how to package an OpenWhisk action as a Node.js module and install it on Knative. Here is a sample…

Apache OpenWhisk actions are invoked by sending HTTP POST requests to the platform API. Invocation requests have two different modes: blocking and non-blocking.

This is a follow up blog post of How to run OpenWhisk actions on Knative?

In this blog post, we are going to experiment with Asynchronous NodeJS action.

Earlier this week I was doing some work with the Cloudant package under OpenWhisk when I noticed the docs didn’t include all the actions available. What I mean is, the docs currently mention the read and write actions, the changes trigger, and nothing…

This weekend I decided to take a quick look at running Facebook Chatbot, aka Facebook Messenger Platform, on the Apache OpenWhisk platform. In general, it worked just fine and 90% of the issues I had were me not reading the docs correctly and making code screw ups. But I…

Many months ago I wrote a quick post on Apache OpenWhisk, serverless, and persistence (Serverless and Persistence). In that article I mentioned that while your serverless actions are stateless and you should not rely on the file system, you do have access to it and can…

A few days ago I blogged about the new Composer functionality for IBM Cloud Functions built upon Apache OpenWhisk. This is a incredibly cool release and I’m going to try my best to demonstrate it over the next few…