Cloud Functions
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My teammate Upkar Lidder published a great tutorial on how to create your first serverless function very fastĀ ā”ļø. I wanted to give it a try and share the step with you here. There is nothing to download, install or configure. You can finish this tutorial in under 10 minutes ā³. Tutorial steps You will complete…
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Last week Marek Sadowski and I presented Introduction to Serverless with IBM Cloud Functions: a new way to build modern apps at Silicon Valley JUG. One of the questions from the audience was how do you take an existing large enterprise Java application and migrate it to serverless architecture? The short answer is you probably shouldn’t do…
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When you start with serverless you will very soon learn/hear about functions cold start (I believeĀ serverless = cloud functions + APIs). A cold start happens when a cloud function is invoked for the first time or after a long time of no invocations. Basically, it takes the server (yes – there are servers!) a little…
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Curious about serverless/function-as-a-service/cloud functions technologies, but haven’t had a chance to dig in? Wondering what all the excitement is about? Serverless doesnāt mean no servers. It’s a new way to build modern applications. Watch this video to learn more about this new approach to building modern applications. The video covers: The current state of the…
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If you search for “serverless” you find that serverless is a new popular way to build modern applications. Is serverless really new? Serverless refers to the notion that you don’t need to worry about servers – you don’t need to provision, deploy, maintain servers. Obviously there are servers but you don’t need to think or…
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In my previous blog post I showed how to invoke an external REST API from a cloud function. The API that I used returns a random (Chuck Norris šŖ) joke. In this blog post I want to show you to how pass a parameter to the cloud function. We can pass a joke number to…
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In a previous blog post I showed how to create your first cloud function (plus a video). It’s very likely that your cloud function will need to invoke an external REST API. The following tutorial will show you how to create such function (it’s very easy). Sign into an IBM Cloud account Click Catalog Remove…
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Learn how to build your first cloud function, a 5-minute video.
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Serverless, Function as a Service (FaaS) or just cloud functions allows you to write code that will run in the cloud. You can use a number of different languages such as JavaScript (Node.js), Swift, Python, Java, PHP and others to write the function code.Ā What’s nice is that you don’t need to worry about servers,…