Timirah James on Fission

Function Composition: What It Means, and Why You Should Care

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 11:39:15 -0700

FaaS Functions give you the ability to quickly deploy services made of small functionality. But any more complex use case requires multiple functions. What are the different approaches to this? What are the parameters on the basis of which we should compare these approaches?

In this short blog post, I’ll briefly go over the significance of function composition and why you should care about it.

First off, What is Function Composition

Function composition refers to combining single functions to create bigger, more complex functions. I like to think of it as creating “super function combinations” in order to gain more dynamic and effective functionality – each function being a building block in the orchestration of an application’s data and/or control flow.

Hello World: Creating Functions using Fission (in Golang)

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:13:45 -0800

First, What is Serverless?

In the last blog post Kubernetes for Newbies, we went over how to get an application up and running on Kubernetes. Though Kubernetes is surely a hot topic in tech, the “serverless” space has become just as (if not even more) trendy. Why is serverless so popular in the dev community?

Turns out, serverless is a developer’s saving grace when it comes to managing servers. Instead of managing a bunch of servers, Serverless solutions allow developers to … well … not manage servers at all! Serverless completely takes away the burden of managing servers. One could say that Serverless separates the “ops” from devs. Functions as a Service (FaaS) enable developers to deploy parts of an application on an “as needed” basis using short-lived functions in just about any programming language.

Hello World in Go for Kubernetes Newbies

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:52:34 -0800

Over the past 3 or so years, it seems the term “containerization” and the name “Kubernetes” have been amplified throughout the tech community non-stop. Even with that being so, as a developer, it can be easy to shy away from Kubernetes as its learning curve is notorious for being a steep one. But everyone’s gotta start somewhere, right? This tutorial will give you a basic overview of some of main features of Kubernetes, while walking you through the process of running a simple HelloWorld Golang application locally on your machine to running it on Kubernetes.