Few serverless database services have emerged in the last few years. These systems are different than traditional RDBMS and traditional database as a service model from the point of billing. First, they eliminate the need for provision on a database on a server, second, their billing is usage dependent. The traditional database as a service model has fixed pricing. As their billing system is not … [Read more...]
What is the future of Serverless and FaaS
One of the most discussed topic of recent time is serverless. Like many trends in software engineering and web services, serverless is still confusing to many of the potential customers. We believe that we have clarified what is serverless, what is FaaS, what are the differences between serverless and FaaS, why serverless is different from the other cloud services. On a serverless platform, the … [Read more...]
What Makes Serverless Different From Other Cloud Services
Normally, with the phrase cloud computing we mean the style of on-demand delivery of compute power, applications, and other IT resources with pay-as-you-go pricing. Traditionally, we had three type of cloud computing service models - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). There are hundreds of other "as a service" but most of them either … [Read more...]
Is Serverless Cost Effective?
Since IBM, Amazon Web Services (AWS) etc companies are offering their function-as-a-service (FaaS) offering, more number of users are becoming interested towards serverless. While it is true that serverless computing is the next step in the evolution of cloud computing, we have to remember that serverless, FaaS are for helping the traditional static websites, not the dynamic websites like a large … [Read more...]
How to Install Apache OpenWhisk on Ubuntu 18.04
It is possible to run own serverless setup instead of using service like IBM Cloud Functions. Here is How to Install Apache OpenWhisk on Ubuntu 18.04 to Create Own FaaS Environment. This is single VM/server deployment of OpenWhisk. One easy way to try OpenWhisk locally is to use Docker Compose. We will need to install Python and couchdb for OpenWhisk. A cloud server with 8GB RAM should be … [Read more...]
Is Serverless Architecture is the Future?
Despite Serverless has problems and challenges at present, in many use cases, Serverless actually used at the backend. Lack of standards, tooling and vendor lock-in are problems and risks for those who are not the cloud service providers. Rather the mass consumers. However, the cloud service providers of IBM, Microsoft, HP sized use serverless for delivering their services. We simply do not know … [Read more...]
Static Website with Jekyll, Object Storage and OpenWhisk Serverless
This article is mostly for providing the idea of how in the last 10 years we are progressing to host small websites on free to cheaper cloud storage. Many readers are Most of the peoples with some work over the internet are used with Jekyll and OctoPress. They are static site generator and also management tool. So far, we could host our static websites on various platforms including Object … [Read more...]
Does Serverless Computing Offer the Benefits of Microservices?
Often this kind of question arises in the mind of who are new to the world of cloud computing. We have discussed some basic around serverless including What Problems are Solved by Serverless, Relationship Between Serverless Computing and Microservices, What Is a Serverless Microservice and so on. Serverless is an excellent environment to build a microservices architecture due to optimal … [Read more...]
How Are Serverless Computing Platforms Different From PaaS?
How Are Serverless Computing Platforms Different From PaaS? Both backend architectures keep the backend management to zero is one big resemblance. With PaaS, we paying for the whole and but in Serverless Computing, we pay only function execution. Origin of Serverless is plain HTML webpages. PaaS and Serverless share lot of similarities in terms of operational abstraction and productivity. … [Read more...]
Serverless Computing : What Problems Does it Solve?
In our earlier discussions around Serverless, we talked around why some developers love Serverless. Serverless Computing does not solve any problem all at once. Let us go Serverless is towards a joke, in sense if the function is active all the time or demand is too much resources, traditional cloud server will be still cheaper. Current cost to run ordinary website (like, a less visited personal … [Read more...]
Run Serverless for Free : GitHub Pages & OpenWhisk/IBM Cloud
Many users fear to test serverless because of unknown cost. Serverless is just hacked form of hosting HTML pages on Cloud Storage or CDN. This is an introductory guide to give the idea how we can test serverless with GitHub pages, PHP functions with OpenWhisk. IBM Cloud Serverless uses the same OpenWhisk. IBM Cloud provides many services for free of cost for testing. As OpenWhisk is a Free … [Read more...]