IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda • Hacker News Board

Re: IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda

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Post by carimura » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 7:34 PM UTC

rendered_fat wrote: post #8

neat. Is there any plans to tie this into the serverless (or JAWS whatever) framework?

Ya if it's a popular request, definitely.

Re: IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda

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Post by carimura » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 7:38 PM UTC

also join the real-time conversation: http://get.iron.io/open-slack

Re: IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda

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Post by bglynn » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 7:44 PM UTC

How's the difference between between IronWorker and IronFunctions?

Re: IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda

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Post by carimura » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 7:59 PM UTC

bglynn wrote: post #13

How's the difference between between IronWorker and IronFunctions?

IronWorker is more classic job processing whereas IronFunctions is AWS Lambda-style sync service. We'll follow up with a longer blog post on the differences.

Re: IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda

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Post by kaishiro » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 9:37 PM UTC

Woah, this is a big deal.

I played with IronWorkers a lot and even built some tooling around spinning up a worker and long polling an IronCache waiting for output (yes, it was a little gnarly). I'm really excited to play with this.

Re: IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda

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Post by aisofteng » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 12:40 AM UTC

OpenWhisk is also in this space.

Re: IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda

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Post by sandGorgon » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 3:14 AM UTC

Are you planning on adding scheduled functions? Kind of like a cron..

Re: IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda

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Post by wilsonfiifi » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 4:56 AM UTC

This is absolutely fab! I've been trying to figure out an elegant way to 'pipe' query results to user defined filter functions[0] for my side-project[1]. Can't wait to give this a go and dig into it. Thanks for making this open source and writing it in Go(lang) :-D

  [0] https://bytengine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/funcs.html  
  [1] https://github.com/johnwilson/bytengine

Re: IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda

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Post by treeder » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 2:27 PM UTC

sandGorgon wrote: post #17

Are you planning on adding scheduled functions? Kind of like a cron..

Yes, we are! Follow this issue: https://github.com/iron-io/functions/issues/100

Re: IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda

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Post by kennu » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 5:49 PM UTC

It's not strictly speaking an alternative to AWS Lambda, because you have to run your own IronFunctions server somewhere. So you will again have to manage servers instead of being serverless.

It's nice to have this platform available though.