OpenFaaS
Infrastructure
serverless functions platform
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How HN took it
3 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 2 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Start times are much faster than other frameworks
From 1 comment
Other frameworks listed here have 350ms start time - OpenFaas is a number of times faster. It also depends entirely on the disk storage, RAM generation & speed and CPU. Golang…
alexellisuk on HN
Platform is open to multiple orchestration backends
From 1 comment
OpenFaaS is an "open platform" - supporting Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and whatever else you would like to write a back-end for. Kubernetes jobs are a potential back-end for…
alexellisuk on HN
Objections
Unclear what functions as a service means and why it is needed
From 2 comments
"functions as a service"? Is it what it sounds like? Why?
hasenj on HNI still don't see anything that explicitly distinguish it from "left-pad api" [0] For example: > A serverless function is a small, discrete and reusable chunk of code that: > ...…
hasenj on HN
Stdin/stdout function approach may be inefficient
From 1 comment
My thoughts exactly. Seems super inefficient. Why not take the Heroku model of sleeping dynos? Spinning up a new process to handle each request is probably costly.
omribahumi on HN
Requests
Helm chart packaging
From 1 comment
Would be great if this were packaged as a Helm chart.
lshemesh on HN
Link to blog posts or tutorials
From 2 comments
Could I get a link to that blog of yours?
philjones88 on HNWould you mind providing a link to your blog? Definitely interested in reading your post when you publish it.
brazzledazzle on HN
Questions
Is the latency figure a full cold start round-trip?
From 1 comment
Sorry for the perhaps silly question, but is this completely cold start for the full round-trip, or is the container "pre-warmed" or something like that?
notamy on HN
How does it compare to Lambda cold response latency?
From 1 comment
This is my wet dream since lambda came out. But how about performance? What's the "cold" response latency compared to lambda?
sscarduzio on HN
Alternatives named
Kubeless
From 1 comment
Kubeless is another open source Kubernetes-native serverless implementation. http://kubeless.io/…
ridruejo on HN
Fission
From 1 comment
Fission is also worth a mention: http://fission.io/, I will certainly keep an eye on `faas-netes`
spitcode on HN
Dokku and Flynn
From 1 comment
Just to add more to the post -- there are lots of options outside of SSH-to-the-box and kubernetes out there, you don't have to go to the new hotness quite so quick. I heavily…
hardwaresofton on HN
AWS Lambda
From 1 comment
The FaaS platforms of the three big providers are basically undifferentiated in their feature sets. If anything, the one from Microsoft is the best because it supports more…
jedberg on HN