OpenWhisk

Apache OpenWhisk is a serverless, open source cloud platform that executes functions in response to events at any scale.

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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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…

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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Raymond Camden in Apache OpenWhisk

Aug 5, 2017

Working with the Forwarder Action in OpenWhisk

One of the issues you run into when working with sequences in OpenWhisk is handling the flow of data from one action to another, especially when integrating actions from other packages where you have no control over the code. In the past, I’ve…

James Thomas in Apache OpenWhisk

Feb 19, 2019

Pluggable Event Providers for Apache OpenWhisk

Recently I presented my work building ”pluggable event providers” for Apache…

Dom Storey in Apache OpenWhisk

Mar 13, 2017

Salesforce to IBM Cloud Functions to IBM Event Streams

in 5 mins!!

In integration putting one thing and another thing together very often makes more than two things… queue in App Connect and IBM Cloud Functions!

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Andreas Nauerz in Apache OpenWhisk

Apr 17, 2017

OpenWhisk workshop at the Serverless Conference in Austin — agenda available and tickets left!

As already announced here, the OpenWhisk team will run a workshop to teach you the basic concepts behind serverless computing in general and OpenWhisk in particular…