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Openwhisk seems (from my very cursory once-over) to require actually laying down some servers, which is fine, but not really the brave new serverless world we'r

Openwhisk seems (from my very cursory once-over) to require actually laying down some servers, which is fine, but not really the brave new serverless world we're all gunning for. The promise of serverless computing is freedom from a fleet of boxen, and it seems to require a fleet of boxen.

mankash666 9y ago
No - openwhisk is a managed service on IBM bluemix. It's one of the few services of theirs I'd recommend over aws
- jschulenklopper 9y ago
  Small correction: OpenWhisk is an Open Source (incubating) Apache project, http://openwhisk.incubator.apache.org/ http://openwhisk.incubator.apache.org/ or https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk. You can run OpenWhish on your own hardware or in the cloud. IBM Cloud Functions is a hosted, managed version of that service, https://console.bluemix.net/openwhisk/ https://console.bluemix.net/openwhisk/, running on the IBM Bluemix platform.
- ajdlinux 9y ago
  To be clear - there's the Apache OpenWhisk project (https://openwhisk.incubator.apache.org https://openwhisk.incubator.apache.org) which was initially developed and released by IBM. IBM Bluemix, of course, offers OpenWhisk on their platform, but you can set up your own OpenWhisk platform if you want. (disclosure: work for IBM, but not in Cloud)