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I see serverless as the new Visual Basic (in a good way!). It allows you to glue together disparate cloud APIs and services (the equivalent of OCX controls in V
by ridruejo 9y ago
I see serverless as the new Visual Basic (in a good way!). It allows you to glue together disparate cloud APIs and services (the equivalent of OCX controls in VB) and create useful applications. Though we are still in the early days, serverless platforms will continue to get easier to use and lower the barrier of entry to cloud application development for a whole new group of developers. We built our own open source serverless solution on top of Kubernetes, called Kubeless: http://kubeless.io http://kubeless.io
- jacques_chester 9y agoI had occasion to look at Kubeless and Fission early in 2017. At the time I recommended we look more closely at Fission, but I am more partial to the Kubeless view that startup time is a matter to push down to Kubernetes. The decision made was to implement another FaaS instead (Project Riff). It resembles Kubeless in a lot of respects. And now I'm assigned to work on it. Funny how things turn out.
- ridruejo 9y agoThanks, I was not aware of Riff, seems indeed very similar to Kubeless in its use of Kubernetes for dealing with the low level mechanics of scaling, usage of CRDs, etc. I would encourage to revisit Kubeless as a lot of progress has been made since early 2017 and the project is getting momentum with contributions from SAP, BlackRock, Microsoft and others. Here's Seb presentation from the last Kubecon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P-aXKylCVs&index=94&list=PLj6h78yzYM2P-3-xqvmWaZbbI1sW-ulZb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P-aXKylCVs&index=94&list=PL...
- jacques_chester 9y agoI'll draw attention to the similarities when I'm back at work. Convergent evolution is often informative.