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VMware Releases Dispatch, an Open Source Serverless Framework
- tannhaeuser 9y agoDefining “Serverless” ... Serverless is the next evolution of application and system design and deployment. Serverless applications are built upon functions—small code artifacts, which are compact and specific to a discrete task. Functions are stateless and must rely on additional services, such as databases and object stores, to provide state. Functions are generally event-driven, meaning there is an event bus which provides the interface to and from a function execution. Because of these properties, functions are easily scalable on demand by definition. Options are always welcome, but this sounds like what was called "enterprise service bus" a couple years ago, until the term fell out of fashion such that even the original inventor of the term "ESB" in their product name (Sonic) dumped it years ago. Only that ESBs also were expected to have options for distributed transactions, auth, and standardised APIs for service implementations such as SCA (which "serverless" platforms don't seem to have).