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Is anyone actually using this (and other open source solutions that do similar things) for anything? The cloud providers offer "serverless" billing for AWS Lam

Is anyone actually using this (and other open source solutions that do similar things) for anything? The cloud providers offer "serverless" billing for AWS Lambda/GCP Functions/Azure Functions in the sense that you pay just for the compute time and don't manage the underlying infrastructure. Outside of vendor lock in, what advantage does running a service like this really offer? To make a system like this usable you'll probably need at least a couple of boxes available 24/7

thomasj 9y ago
IBM offers that open-source platform as a managed service, IBM Cloud Functions (https://console.bluemix.net/openwhisk/ https://console.bluemix.net/openwhisk/).
tedmiston 9y ago
Run on top of k8s it, and similar projects like Riff, allow you to run Lambda-style FaaS outside of clouds / on bare metal. That's the main benefit I see currently, besides that many companies what to abstract their code to be as cloud agnostic as possible. Also, if you're running lots of function iterations, it can be cheaper to run this way than Lambda etc.