Lets meetup and learn about Serverless and Functions as a Service
Details
We'll look in-depth at Fn Project - an Open Source Serverless Compute Platform.
To start with there will be a chance to discuss what "serverless" even means, what Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms are for, what they're good at and what they're not. Then we will see how to create our own functions, run and test them locally and deploy them to a FaaS platform to build event-driven applications. Some knowledge of Docker will be useful here but not essential.
We will see what architectural patterns FaaS enables and encourages and how we can use it as a platform to build larger applications. If there is interest we can also look behind the scenes at how Fn Project is architected, and how it is similar/different to other Faas platforms.
This will be a practical session, so bring your laptop if you want to do some hands on. There are 2 pre-reqs for the hands on section:
• Docker 17.06 or later installed and running
• A Docker Hub account
Of course you are also welcome to listen to the presentation and discuss.
There will be food and beverages!