OpenWhisk Part 1 Research Data at Interconnect 2017
- 1. InterConnect 2017The Serverless Revolution Continues The Latest From OpenWhisk Part 1 of 2 Perry Cheng Principal Research Staff Member IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 1 3/16/17
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- 3. 3 a cloud-native platform for • short-running, stateless computation and • event-driven applications which • scales up and down instantly and automatically and • charges for usage at a millisecond granularity 3 What is Serverless? event handlersevents
- 4. 4 3/16/17 What is Serverless good for? Microservices Mobile Backends IoT Modest Stream Processing Bots, ML Inferencing Serverless is good for short-running stateless event-driven Serverless is not good for long-running stateful number crunching Databases Deep Learning Training Spark/Hadoop Analytics Heavy-Duty Stream Analytics Numerical Simulationf(x) Service integration (e.g. Cognitive: ObjectStore + Watson) Video Streaming
- 5. 5 3/16/17 Why is Serverless attractive? short answer It makes development and operations faster, cheaper, easier. faster, cheaper, easier. On-prem VMs Containers Serverless Time to provision Weeks- months Minutes Seconds- Minutes Milliseconds Utilization Low High Higher Highest Charging granularity CapEx Hours Minutes Blocks of milliseconds
- 6. 6 3/16/17 OpenWhisk is … An Apache Incubator Open-source Project The Serverless platform in the IBM Bluemix Cloud
- 7. 7 3/16/17 A Whirlwind Tour of OpenWhisk
- 9. A Action: a stateless function (event handler)
- 10. A stateless Javascript function 10 3/16/17 An action can be ..
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- 12. A stateless python function 12 3/16/17 An action can be ..
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- 14. Any arbitrary stateless program encapsulated in a Docker container Eg. • Binary • Shell script • Any language runtime 14 3/16/17 An action can be ..
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- 16. Trigger 16 Trigger: a class of events (feed)
- 17. R Rule: a mapping from a Trigger to an Action
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- 19. A Producer of trigger events e.g. • Databases • Webhooks • Periodic jobs 19 3/16/17 Feeds
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- 21. P Package: a shared collection of Actions and feeds
- 22. Package 22 read write docChanged languageId translate forecast post topic post myAction myFeed /dave/myPackage Open Source Third Party Build and Share your Own! Package: a shared collection of Actions and feeds
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- 24. Action: sequence
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- 26. 26 3/16/17 Sequences + packages -> service composition Chain together services on the server-side
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