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Just like Kung Fu in the 70's, serverless application development and deployment is hot. But just like Kung Fu, serverless is as much of a mindset as it is a platform. Amazon's Lambdas really kicked off the excitement, but going even further back, the origins of this style of programming can be found in functional principles: those found in Erlang, Haskell, and Scala.Primarily, the idea of stateless computing and the goal of building discrete application functions drive this new paradigm of serverless. What's new about serverless is the fact that applications are offered up to the cloud to run in some unknown nebula managed by the cloud provider, with scaling needs completely abstracted away from the developer.That's the promise, anyway. For the older readers out there, this probably sounds a bit like an elaborate new form of application server. And you'd be completely right. To this end, both IBM and Oracle's approach to the serverless revolution has been to offer open source runtimes for anyone to run in their own cloud.

Just like Kung Fu in the 70's, serverless application development and deployment is hot. But just like Kung Fu, serverless is as much of a mindset as it is a platform. Amazon's Lambdas really kicked off the excitement, but going even further back, the origins of this style of programming can be found in functional principles: those found in Erlang, Haskell, and Scala. Primarily, the idea of stateless computing and the goal of building discrete application functions drive this new paradigm of serverless. What's new about serverless is the fact that applications are offered up to the cloud to run in some unknown nebula managed by the cloud provider, with scaling needs completely abstracted away from the developer. That's the promise, anyway. For the older readers out there, this probably sounds a bit like an elaborate new form of application server. And you'd be completely right. To this end, both IBM and Oracle's approach to the serverless revolution has been to offer open source runtimes for anyone to run in their own cloud.

Talking Serverless with Oracle's Chad Arimura

Matt Stephenson

“Serverless” is a word used to describe functions that get deployed and run without the developer having to manage the infrastructure explicitly. Instead of creating a server, installing the dependencies, and executing your code, the developer just provides the code to the serverless API, and the serverless system takes care of the server creation, the installation, and the execution. Serverless was first offered with the AWS Lambda service but has since been offered by other cloud providers. There have also been numerous open source serverless systems. On SE Daily, we have done episodes about OpenWhisk, Fission, and Kubeless. All of these are built on the Kubernetes container management system. Kubernetes is an open-source tool used to build and manage infrastructure, so it is a useful building block for higher level systems. Chad Arimura is the VP of serverless at Oracle, where he runs the Fn project, an open source serverless platform built on top of Kubernetes. In the past, he ran Iron.io, a message broker platform. Matt Stephenson also joins the show–he is a senior principal software engineer at Oracle and has experience from Amazon and Google, where he worked on Google App Engine (which was arguably one of the first “serverless” platforms). We discussed why there are so many different serverless tools built on Kubernetes, and the tradeoffs that these serverless tools are exploring. The post Function Platforms with Chad Arimura and Matt Stephenson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“Serverless” is a word used to describe functions that get deployed and run without the developer having to manage the infrastructure explicitly. Instead of creating a server, installing the dependencies, and executing your code, the developer just provides the code to the serverless API, and the serverless system takes care of the server creation, the installation, and the execution. Serverless was first offered with the AWS Lambda service but has since been offered by other cloud providers. There have also been numerous open source serverless systems. On SE Daily, we have done episodes about OpenWhisk, Fission, and Kubeless. All of these are built on the Kubernetes container management system. Kubernetes is an open-source tool used to build and manage infrastructure, so it is a useful building block for higher level systems. Chad Arimura is the VP of serverless at Oracle, where he runs the Fn project, an open source serverless platform built on top of Kubernetes. In the past, he ran <a href="http://Iron.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Iron.io</a>, a message broker platform. Matt Stephenson also joins the show–he is a senior principal software engineer at Oracle and has experience from Amazon and Google, where he worked on Google App Engine (which was arguably one of the first “serverless” platforms). We discussed why there are so many different serverless tools built on Kubernetes, and the tradeoffs that these serverless tools are exploring. The post <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/06/26/function-platforms-with-chad-arimura-and-matt-stephenson/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Function Platforms with Chad Arimura and Matt Stephenson</a> appeared first on <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Software Engineering Daily</a>.

Function Platforms with Chad Arimura and Matt Stephenson