Your first Serverless application on IBM cloud

IBM Cloud provides a set of cloud computing services that deal with SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and Serverless computing. For virtualization, IBM uses the IBM Websphere application infrastructure. The management layer of the IBM cloud uses IBM Tivoli middleware. In this recipe, we will build a simple serverless application on IBM Cloud. We will also look at the IBM cloud services for the various serverless use cases.

Getting ready

Following are the prerequisites for this recipe:

• Create an account at IBM cloud: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/.
• Using the IBM id, create account at https://console.bluemix.net/registration/. This will create a Lite account.
• We need to upgrade our account by adding...