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Serverless computing abstracts away the idea of a server node. Serverless lets programmers treat compute resources as high-level, reliable APIs, rather than unreliable, low-level compute nodes that might fail. Serverless dramatically improves the efficiency of programmers. Instead of thinking of a database as a set of servers that need to be sharded and replicated, the programmer can think of a database as a place to read and write data. Instead of modeling an application as a large monolith running on an application server in a container or a VM, the programmer can think of their application as a decoupled set of functions. Serverless computing is a natural evolution of software engineering in a world with cloud providers. The first version of FaaS came out of AWS with their Lambda service, which allows users to run functions in the cloud. Those functions are scheduled onto a physical server somewhere in an Amazon data center. They are executed, and they return the result. With AWS Lambda, programmers got a new abstraction to model their applications with. But it requires the use of a closed-source API. Lambda is not open source, and this makes some developers reluctant to integrate with it too tightly. Fission is an open source framework for serverless functions built on Kubernetes. Fission allows developers to deploy functions-as-a-service without being locked in to any specific cloud provider. Soam Vasani is the creator of Fission and an engineer at Platform9. In a previous episode, Soam talked about the architecture for Fission and the design choices for solving the cold start and scheduling problems. Soam joins the show today to discuss how serverless applications have evolved since last spoke more than a year ago. He also talks about how Fission itself has evolved, and the features that an open source serverless platform needs to have in order to compete with a fully developed cloud provider. Full disclosure: Platform9 is a sponsor of Software Engineering Daily. The post Fission: Serverless on Kubernetes with Soam Vasani appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Serverless computing abstracts away the idea of a server node. Serverless lets programmers treat compute resources as high-level, reliable APIs, rather than unreliable, low-level compute nodes that might fail. Serverless dramatically improves the efficiency of programmers. Instead of thinking of a database as a set of servers that need to be sharded and replicated, the programmer can think of a database as a place to read and write data. Instead of modeling an application as a large monolith running on an application server in a container or a VM, the programmer can think of their application as a decoupled set of functions. Serverless computing is a natural evolution of software engineering in a world with cloud providers. The first version of FaaS came out of AWS with their Lambda service, which allows users to run functions in the cloud. Those functions are scheduled onto a physical server somewhere in an Amazon data center. They are executed, and they return the result. With AWS Lambda, programmers got a new abstraction to model their applications with. But it requires the use of a closed-source API. Lambda is not open source, and this makes some developers reluctant to integrate with it too tightly. Fission is an open source framework for serverless functions built on Kubernetes. Fission allows developers to deploy functions-as-a-service without being locked in to any specific cloud provider. Soam Vasani is the creator of Fission and an engineer at Platform9. In a previous episode, Soam talked about the architecture for Fission and the design choices for solving the cold start and scheduling problems. Soam joins the show today to discuss how serverless applications have evolved since last spoke more than a year ago. He also talks about how Fission itself has evolved, and the features that an open source serverless platform needs to have in order to compete with a fully developed cloud provider. Full disclosure: Platform9 is a sponsor of Software Engineering Daily. The post <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/11/13/fission-serverless-on-kubernetes-with-soam-vasani/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fission: Serverless on Kubernetes with Soam Vasani</a> appeared first on <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Software Engineering Daily</a>.

Fission: Serverless on Kubernetes with Soam Vasani

Serverless has grown to become more than just Amazon Lambdas. Today, there are dozens of implementations, from inside the clouds, to those that are designed to run inside a datacenter, to those that run in Kubernetes. That last batch is where the most interest has coagulated over the past year, and now even more so with the announcement of Knative as a project designed to smooth the Serveless experience on Kubernetes.Streamed live at Serverlessconf in San Francisco, this past week, we caught up with Soam Vasani, the creator of Fission.io, a serverless framework for Kubernetes. He began the project in late 2016, and said that it has become a popular Function-as-a-Service system for Kubernetes users. The project was created at Platform9 to help make their customers more productive on the very first day they installed their own Kubernetes cluster. "You can build functions the same way you do, for example, on AWS Lambda, but you can run them anywhere on any Kubernetes cluster," said Vasani.Watch on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/YoIu611OQlM

Serverless has grown to become more than just Amazon Lambdas. Today, there are dozens of implementations, from inside the clouds, to those that are designed to run inside a datacenter, to those that run in Kubernetes. That last batch is where the most interest has coagulated over the past year, and now even more so with the announcement of Knative as a project designed to smooth the Serveless experience on Kubernetes. Streamed live at Serverlessconf in San Francisco, this past week, we caught up with Soam Vasani, the creator of <a href="http://Fission.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fission.io</a>, a serverless framework for Kubernetes. He began the project in late 2016, and said that it has become a popular Function-as-a-Service system for Kubernetes users. The project was created at Platform9 to help make their customers more productive on the very first day they installed their own Kubernetes cluster. "You can build functions the same way you do, for example, on AWS Lambda, but you can run them anywhere on any Kubernetes cluster," said Vasani. Watch on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/YoIu611OQlM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/YoIu611OQlM</a>

Talking Serverless with Fission.io Creator Soam Vasani

Kubernetes is an orchestration system for managing containers. Since it was open sourced by Google, Kubernetes has created a wave of innovation in the infrastructure technology space.  Another recent innovation has been the “serverless” execution tools–such as AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions. Serverless execution, otherwise known as functions-as-a-service, allows a developer to execute code against cloud servers without specifying which cloud servers they are executing on. Serverless execution is a cheap, flexible resource that any large company wants to have access to. But AWS Lambda and the other popular serverless tools are closed source. This led Soam Vasani to work on Fission, a serverless executor that sits on top of Kubernetes. If you have not heard about either Kubernetes or Serverless, you can check out our previous episodes about either topic. If you are familiar with the two topics, I think you’ll enjoy this episode, in which Soam explains the motivation for serverless on Kubernetes, and the architecture of Fission.  Software Engineering Daily is looking for sponsors for Q3. If your company has a product or service, or if you are hiring, Software Engineering Daily reaches 23,000 developers listening daily. Send me an email: jeff@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Serverless on Kubernetes with Soam Vasani appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Kubernetes is an orchestration system for managing containers. Since it was open sourced by Google, Kubernetes has created a wave of innovation in the infrastructure technology space. Another recent innovation has been the “serverless” execution tools–such as AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions. Serverless execution, otherwise known as functions-as-a-service, allows a developer to execute code against cloud servers without specifying which cloud servers they are executing on. Serverless execution is a cheap, flexible resource that any large company wants to have access to. But AWS Lambda and the other popular serverless tools are closed source. This led Soam Vasani to work on Fission, a serverless executor that sits on top of Kubernetes. If you have not heard about either Kubernetes or Serverless, you can check out our previous episodes about <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/tag/kubernetes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">either</a> <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/?s=serverless" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">topic</a>. If you are familiar with the two topics, I think you’ll enjoy this episode, in which Soam explains the motivation for serverless on Kubernetes, and the architecture of Fission. Software Engineering Daily is looking for sponsors for Q3. If your company has a product or service, or if you are hiring, Software Engineering Daily reaches 23,000 developers listening daily. Send me an email: jeff@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/06/12/serverless-on-kubernetes-with-soam-vasani/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Serverless on Kubernetes with Soam Vasani</a> appeared first on <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Software Engineering Daily</a>.

Serverless on Kubernetes with Soam Vasani