Questions tagged [faas]

Function-as-a-Service, or simply FaaS, is the popular implementation of the serverless computing model, where developers can compose applications using arbitrary, event-driven functions to be executed on demand. Use this tag if you have any kind of doubt while using this service, usually offered by cloud providers.

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Apache Flink in Kubernetes

Could anyone please let me know how I can setup Flink in my Serverless platform (FaaS) to perform event driven operations? I looked at Flink functions and it seems to be promising. Could anyone clarify on the below? What I need to install in my…
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Serverless Computing versus Function As A Service (FaaS)

From Azure Docs: Serverless computing is a cloud-hosted execution environment that runs your code but completely abstracts the underlying hosting environment. You create an instance of the service, and you add your code; no infrastructure…
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Cold start vs scaling to zero trade-off in FaaS

Before I even start, I'll say that I was not 100% sure whether SO is the appropriate SX for this question. Let me know if I should ask this on some other SX. The question is about FaaS in general, but if you can better explain this in a context of…
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-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY not found error when running faas in Azure

I’ve created a function as a service to be deployed in Azure using the “DocuSign APS.NET Core Web Application” project template and it works fine when testing it through my local machine. However, I’m having issues when I test it in Azure itself…
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When is aws-lambda instance destroyed?

From the docs: When your function is invoked, Lambda attempts to re-use the execution environment from a previous invocation if one is available. When a lambda function is invoked, an instance of the configured runtime will be launched. Once…
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What is the function time out limit at Alibaba Function Compute?

I'm doing some research for my thesis in the faas field. I want to compare the faas provider... Can anybody tell me what the maximum is that a function can run on alibaba function compute? Couldn't find anything on google about it.
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how to access gatsby env variables in netlify-lambda

I would like to use different credentials in my Netlify functions depending on my NODE_ENV variable. I have a Gatsby project and when I run netlify dev Gatsby sets NODE_ENV === development and gatsby develop command sets it to production. Please…
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How to pass values between 2 cloud functions?

I'm working on GitHub authorization and have to compare two strings (Github state and local state). A separate module (file) is used to store and retrieve states. In the first function, I put the value in an object defined in that module, in the…
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Is there a front-end open source for Parse like "http://adminca.com/"?

In my company, our team needs an admin panel like adminca. Adminca is slow to connect in our country, so I want to build an "adminca" website using open source for just a few people in our team. Can you give me some advice?
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How to increase the execution time for apps served by knative?

We are using knative to serve a nodejs app (with express) that would execute workflows and return back the results of execution. The app would have to execute workflows which could take minutes (if not hours) to finish executing. After invoking the…
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Serverless computing : Cloud Foundry's Diego Elastic Runtime

I am trying to understand Serverless architecture which says 2 distinct things: you as an app developer think about your function only and not about the server responsibilities. Well, the server still has got to be somewhere. By servers, I…
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Fn project is missing http operations (CRUD)

I have spent my afternoon getting very excited about the container-native serverless platform 'fn project' - http://fnproject.io/. I love the idea of the FaaS model but have no intention of locking myself into a particular cloud vendor for most of…
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How AWS Lambda or any other FAAS are bootstrapped

Recently we moved to AWS. and we are in process of refactoring our code to take advantage of AWS offerings. one such thing is AWS Lambda (Faas). i understand that AWS lambda is a process running in some ec2 container( with reqd computing resources…
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Kubernetes - One request per container inside a pod

How can i control the distribute of requests inside a pod? For example: I have one pod with one container that runs NodeJs Hello world with 10sec sleep. At first without scaling, i just want to hold other requests until the container finish…
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How to get all documents of a collection with mongodb find() using webtask.io and mlab

I have a collection named "posts" in a mongodb at mlab.com and I am trying to access all of the documents in this collection with db.collection('posts').find(). Below is my code for my webtask I've created, which I named mongodb_find: var…
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