Serverless Framework for Real-Time Apps Emerges

Serverless computing can advance real-time applications by providing developers with access to a framework employing an event-driven architecture. Serverless computing has a lot of potential to advance real-time applications by providing developers with access to a framework employing an event-driven architecture that makes IT infrastructure resources seamlessly available on demand. The trouble is that the existing serverless computing frameworks are too slow to support real-time applications. At the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2017 conference this week iguazio moved to address that issue by making available a high-speed serverless computing framework as an open source project that it developed in support of the company’s real-time analytics database See also: Why putting #IoT into @Docker containers will unlock it Dubbed nuclio and written in the #Go programming language, iguazio CTO @Yaron Haviv says this #serverlesscomputing framework is unique because it allows developers to employ function within the context of a Docker container running on a @Kubernetes cluster or a software development kit ( #SDK ) that iguazio developed. That approach differs considerably from a proprietary serverless framework such as the @Lambda service developed by @Amazon Web Services ( #AWS), which Haviv also notes requires organizations to also consume a raft of complimentary AWS compute and storage services to work. Supported programing language include supports Golang and Python, with support for Java and Node.js coming soon. Haviv says the high-speed function-as-a-service (FaaS) layer of software iguazio developed for nuclio makes it possible for real-time applications to invoke IT infrastructure in parallel on a truly elastic basis. “Nuclio uses Flash directly,” says Haviv. “In an on-premises environment, it can fit in a 2u box.” In addition, Haviv says nuclio includes tools to enable simple debugging, regression testing and even a multi-versioned continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline to drive DevOps processes. Function images can also be stored in a shared repository.

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Is Docker Dead?

Summary Nic Jackson compares and contrasts the development and deployment flow for both a @Docker and a #Serverless project, attempting to see if Docker has already been made obsolete by serverless. Bio Nic Jackson is a developer advocate and polyglot programmer working for HashiCorp, and the author of “Building #Microservices in Go”. In his spare time, Nic coaches and mentors at Coder Dojo teaching kids 7–14 Swift with Playgrounds, teaches at Women Who Go and GoBridge, speaks and evangelizes good coding practice, process, and technique and works to raise money for a charity he runs with his wife. It's all about #Containers, Serverless and Reactive Programming right now! ProgSCon London will explore these trends through engaging talks delivered by leading industry experts. Several talks will also feature various aspect of Blockchain, Microservices and Big Data. If you are a software developer looking to sharpen your skills and learn from the best in the industry, then ProgSCon London 2017 is the place you need to be at!

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/docker-serverless