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 of certain events in the environment.
The execution of these functions happens inside the docker containers, and the OpenWhisk platform manages the deployment and scaling of these functions inside it.
Here are some of the features provided by the platform:
- Easy-to-use tools: The...
