Building our first serverless application

With our basic knowledge of the serverless architecture and how it works, it's now time for us to develop our first serverless application. For this tutorial, we are going to use the Apache OpenWhisk project, which will help us run our demo application on our local development system. So, let's take a look at what Apache OpenWhisk has to offer us and how we can utilize the platform for our benefit.

A quick introduction to Apache OpenWhisk

The Apache OpenWhisk platform provides us with the features and functionality that allow us to set up our own platform for running serverless applications. The project provides the functionality for executing functions based on the triggering...