Serverless Munich Meetup, Juli 2019, Munich: Talk by Mario-Leander Reimer (@LeanderReimer, Principal Software Architect at QAware) === Please download slides if blurred! === Abstract: Not long ago, the advent of microservice architectures was a big disruption in software engineering: systems were now build, composed and run as autonomous services. But this came at the price of added complexity. Serverless and FaaS seem to be the next disruption, they are the logical evolution in cloud native software development. Of course, FaaS bringt its own set of challenges, such as cold startup performance, asynchronism and overall throughput. But it does not have to be all that bad. Do you want to know what real fast FaaS looks like? Then fasten your seatbelts when we give Nuclio a try.

1. HIGH-
PERFORMANCE FAAS
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2. Mario-Leander Reimer
Principal Software Architect
#CloudNativeNerd
QAware GmbH
http://github.com/lreimer
http://speakerdeck.com/lreimer

3. CLOUD NATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IS
COMPLICATED.DOCKER, YAML, MICROSERVICES, KUBERNETES, ET.AL.
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4. Serverless computing refers to a new model of cloud native
computing, enabled by architectures that do not require
server management to build and run applications. It leverages
a finer-grained deployment model where applications, bundled
as one or more functions, are uploaded to a platform and
then executed, scaled, and billed in response to the exact
demand needed at the moment. 1
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https://landscape.cncf.io/
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5. SERVERLESS IS THE NEXT
LOGICAL EVOLUTIONIN CLOUD NATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT.
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6. FUNCTIONSAS PREFERRED SERVERLESS APPLICATION
PROGRAMMING MODEL.

7. EVENT-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE
ENABLES LOOSELY COUPLED REACTIVE
SOFTWARE COMPONENTS AND SERVICES.
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8. USE CASE 1
HYBRID ARCHITECTURES
> Combine Microservice Architecture
with EDA
> Leverage Function services for
Event-driven use cases
> Reduce resource consumption and
costs via Scale 2 Zero
> Integrate into existing Enterprise
PaaS environment

9. USE CASE 2
EDGE AND FOG COMPUTING
> Research project: evaluate usage of
FaaS for low power devices
> Support for lightweight schedulers
like Docker Swarm
> Support for compiled language
runtimes like Go

10. MY CRITERIA TO CHOOSE THE IDEAL FAAS PLATFORM
> Open Source - no initial $$$ and no vendor lock-in please
> Maturity - good and active community, little issues, frequent releases
> Use Cases - general purpose, enterprise, big data, AI, edge computing
> Approachable - quick start and sufficient documentation
> Language Runtimes - please more than JavaScript!
> Developer Friendly - tools & frameworks, local runtime, testing, IDE support
> Operability - easy setup, supported platforms, technology footprint
> Integration - supported triggers, infrastructure, plugins, standards
> Performance - good cold startup performance and throughput
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15. PUT KNATIVE, RIFF AND KYMA ON YOUR RADAR!
> Knative
> K8s based platform to build, deploy and manage serverless workloads
> Build for Cloud-native Source-to-Container orchestration
> Serving for a scale-to-zero request driven compute model, leverages Istio
> Eventing provides composable primitives to enable late-binding event sources and event consumers
> riff
> provides and integrates basic FaaS platform infrastructure components, currently v0.3.0
> combines Cloud Native Buildpacks with Knative Serving and Knative Eventing
> Kyma
> full blown serverless platform with many components, currently v1.1.0
> Recently migrated serverless components to Knative and Istio
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17. MY MAIN CONTENDERS
> fission
https://fission.io
> Fn Project
http://fnproject.io
> Kubeless
https://kubeless.io
> nuclio
https://nuclio.io
> OpenFaaS
https://www.openfaas.com
> OpenWhisk
https://openwhisk.apache.org

18. THE OPEN SOURCE FAAS FRAMEWORK QUICK CHECK 3
License Inception Contributor Releases Stars Issues Build
nuclio Apache-2.0 Jun 04, 2017 42 60 2.869 48 (1 bugs) ✅
OpenWhisk Apache-2.0 Feb 14, 2016 147 1 4.061 411 (22 bugs) ❌
Fn Project Apache-2.0 May 30, 2016 76 1.039 4.074 109 (8 bugs) ✅
fission Apache-2.0 Aug 14, 2016 76 34 4.411 232 (5 bugs) ✅
Kubeless Apache-2.0 Nov 13, 2016 75 40 4.750 131 (0 bugs) ✅
OpenFaaS MIT Dec 18, 2016 97 87 14.510 53 (0 bugs) ✅
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data from Jun 17, 2019. Github stats will vary, taken from Main repo only.
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19. Language Use Cases Generation Platforms Runtimes Triggers
nuclio Go Enterprise, IoT 2nd Docker, K8s, AWS, GCP,
(Raspberry PI soon)
.NET Core, Go, Java,
NodeJS, Python, Shell
DynamoDB, Iguazio v3io,
http, kafka, kinesis,
nats, rabbitmq, mqtt
fission Go Enterprise 2nd k8s Go, Python, NodeJS,
Java/JVM
cron, http, NATS,
Azure Queue Storage,
Kafka, Kubewatch
Kubeless Go Enterprise 2nd K8s NodeJS, Java, Go, JVM,
Python, PHP, Ruby, .NET
Core, Ballerina, Vert.x
cron, http, NATS,
kinesis, Kafka
OpenFaaS Go Enterprise, IoT 1st K8s, Docker Go, C#, Java8,
Dockerfile, NodeJS,
PHP, Python, Ruby
http, cron, Kafka, AWS
SNS, S3, CloudEvents,
IFTTT, Redis, MQTT, NATS
OpenWhisk Scala Enterprise, Hosted? 2nd K8s, Mesos, Docker,
OpenShift
NodeJS, Swift, Java, Go,
Scala, Python, PHP,
Ruby, .NET Core,
Ballerina
Cloudant, RSS, Kafka,
JIRA, Bluemix Push,
Slack, Github
Fn Project Go Enterprise, Hosted? 1st Docker, K8s Java, Go, NodeJS,
Python, Ruby
http
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20. Installation Scheduler Docs Usage Ecosystem Performance
nuclio K8s YAML K8s Native Web, README Quick Start,
Examples, CLI
SDK, Jupyther 1542 Req/sec
fission Helm (2 Charts) K8s Native Web, README Quick Start,
Examples, CLI
SDK, Workflow,
Istio
1069 Req/sec
OpenFaaS Helm, Docker
Compose YAML
K8s Native Web, README Quick Start,
Examples, CLI
Raspberry Pi,
Serverless
Framework
1041 Req/sec
Kubeless K8s YAML, Helm
(Incubator)
K8s Native Web, README Quick Start,
Examples, CLI
SDK, Istio,
Serverless
Framework
1363 Req/sec
OpenWhisk Helm Custom Web, README Quick Start,
Examples, CLI
Serverless
Framework
not tested
Fn Project Helm Custom README Quick Start,
Examples, CLI
SDK, Graal VM 48 Req/sec
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22. NUCLIO DEMO

23. FORK ME
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/LREIMER/THE-BIG-FAAS-LEBOWSKI
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/LREIMER/RASPI-SWARM-BOX
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24. THANK YOU!
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