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...]
Frameworks For Creating Serverless Apps
Unlike 10 years back, developing web applications and mobile applications no longer easy. There are too many things to maintain these days which made hand coding CSS quite difficult. Developing HTML pages with CSS, PHP, Flash, and JavaScript (aka FrontEnd development) changed too much. When JavaScript became a server-side language, most developers fall in love with the idea of using JS for every … [Read more...]
What is the Relationship Between Serverless Computing and Microservices?
Serverless Computing and Microservices are not exactly related unlike cloud computing and virtualization are related. It is of importantance not to confuse architecture and technologies but use the correct technology for the correct architecture. Microservices is a style of architecture style where we develop a set of multiple operation specific to a business logic. In that way, the total software … [Read more...]
Why Some Developers Love Serverless So Much?
Serverless is still new and there are a lot of developers who do not understand what is behind the name and ask questions like Serverless Functions vs Microservices. Serverless is a pricing model. Serverless introduces an additional abstraction layer. Cloud made many thing a lot simpler. A single developer can easily spin up a virtual machine withinf a few minutes. PaaS, Serverless are extending … [Read more...]