Developing Serverless Applications with Bluemix IBM Cloud Functions

So we start fresh this year!! With new presentations, demos, hands-on and much bigger Bluemix catalog to pick the services from. I am happy to announce our upcoming Meetup in University Stuttgart.

We pick up from where we left and our topic is :

Developing Serverless Applications with Apache OpenWhisk & IBM Cloud Functions

Serverless computing (aka Function-as-a-Service) provides developers with a serverless deployment and operations model relieving them from the need to worry about complex infrastructural and operational tasks and allowing them to focus on developing value-adding code. It guarantees an optimal utilisation at any scale where developers do not have to pay for resources idling around but for code really running. I.e. it is a model where code only runs on-demand, on a per-request basis.

IBM Cloud Functions is IBM's managed version of Apache OpenWhisk running on Bluemix. Apache OpenWhisk is an open-source FaaS platform driven by IBM and partners like Adobe and RedHat that allows to execute code in response to an event and that is ideally suited to a wide range of scenarios including cognitive, data, IoT, microservices and mobile workloads.

During this session Dr. Andreas Nauerz(IBM Boeblingen) will talk about the journey through the world of serverless computing, the core concepts, the key value proposition and differentiators, typical usage scenarios, and the underlying programming model of serverless computing in general and Apache OpenWhisk & IBM Cloud Functions in particular. The highlight includes some of the latest additions and illustration on how to benefit by “going” serverless by exploring some real-world customer use-cases.

Agenda

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16:00 - 17:00: Talk

17:00 - 17:45: Demos

17:45 - 18:00: Questions

18:00 - 18:30: Networking and Refreshments

For knowing more about Bluemix, use the link (http://www.bluemix.net/)!