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OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing

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Re: OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing

#21

Lambda is great but it is not serverless, but more a PaaS for microservices. Which is a great direction to head, but not the correct vocabulary. "Serverless" can more accurately be said of the P2P/decentralized movement: - https://ipfs.io/ - http://gun.js.org/ - https://zeronet.io/ - https://webtorrent.io/ etc.

Actually "serverless" in the sense of the current buzz word is not P2P, it is basically Lambda: http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html

Re: OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing

#26

How does it compare to Apex? Anybody with experience on both? https://github.com/apex/apex PS: Besides the fact APEX is only for AWS, however, APEX is very mature.

Apex is a framework used to help build and deploy applications on Lambda. This project appears to be a way to run your own Lambda service locally. There are other projects out there like OpenWhisk[1], Iron Worker[2], Gestalt[3], and Funktion[4].

[1] - https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk

[2] - https://www.iron.io/platform/ironworker/

[3] - https://galacticfog.github.io/

[4] - https://github.com/fabric8io/funktion

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Re: OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing

#29

I think serverless is a very misleading name, because it does still need server infrastructure and server software. The serverless term will confuse non-technical people to think there's actually no server infrastructure or software needed.

Well, as you posted this after another post that addressed this criticism rather elegantly, I will repeat the relevant bit - " We're OK with 'wireless' access to Internet, although it's pretty clear that the packets will hit a wire at some point. Wireless means I'm not pulling a cord along with my phone. "

Non-technical people may assume no server infrastructure. From the developer perspective -this is accurate-; the actual hardware is handled by someone else, there is no concept of it that the developer has to work around.

I'm not sure why you'd think someone would believe no software would be needed; even when servers are involved, there is software located elsewhere, on a mobile phone or a web browser or similar. No one is going to say "Oh, serverless? Then I don't need my software development team any more!"

Re: OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing

#30
post #27

So there's no servers, anywhere in this? You don't run it on a computer or anything? Clearly I'm being a smart ass, but pointing out that 'serverless' is an idiotic marketing term.

What we need is to find a term to replace that atrocity. We agree that this is not "server less" but what is it? Its more like abstract servers.
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