Ep. 37: The FaaS and the Furious - Serverless Architecture with Apache OpenWhisk

Glynn Bird ( @glynn_bird ) remembers the days when he had to i nstall servers in racks and maintain connectivity manually. Since then, the unit of scalability has evolved from the server, to the platform - and now to individual event-driven functions. In this episode, Glynn gives a primer on function-as-a-service (FaaS) and Apache OpenWhisk™, including why you can think of FaaS as "the ultimate microservice" and an extension of PaaS (4:00), why a FaaS and microservices approach may be a better fit for startups and teams that need to keep things small (8:40), how to get started with OpenWhisk (11:40), and how he used OpenWhisk and IBM Cloudant to program his Alexa to report temperature readings from his house (16:52). You can find new episodes of The New Builders on developerWorks TV and SoundCloud . Find out more about IBM Watson Data Platform at ibm.co/watsondataplatform . Contact host Jim Young on Twitter ( @JW_Young ) or email ( jwyoung@us.ibm.com ). The show's music is provided by School for Robots. Check them out at schoolforrobots.bandcamp.com !

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Ep. 37: The FaaS and the Furious - Serverless Architecture with Apache OpenWhisk is an episode from The New Builders Podcast by IBM developerWorks TV.

This episode is 21:40 long.

This episode was published on Jul 28, 2017.

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