Why do people think Serverless is not for them? Why are they "not ready"?
From the Live Stream:
David McKay from Equinix Metal joined me for fire-side chat on serverless use-cases
Serverless vs. functions (FaaS)
- Event-driven - NATS, Kafka, GitHub, Stripe - https://myedes.io/stripe-serverless-webhook-faasd/ Postgresql - https://github.com/LucasRoesler/openfaas-wal-listener
- Marketing automation - bannerbear replacement - https://www.bannerbear.com/
- Workflows and DAGs - Huggin, Pipedream, n8n
- HTTP services - https://faasd.exit.openfaas.pro/function/trove
- Enrich static pages with CORS - https://alexellis.github.io/docs/
Keeping it personal - this is how we are currently using serverless
https://github.com/mrsimpson/ical-interceptor
I only have one body, I only have one availability - I should have only one calendar
However, I need to track my employer's calendar appointments during the day. At the same time, I failed to use corporate mobile hardware and I am not allowed to bring my own device. However, we use Office 365 at work. And Outlook of the O365 allows me to publish a public availability calendar. But without alarms...
Gumroad sales function with Slack notifications and email upgrades
https://github.com/alexellis/gumroad-sales-forwarder
Scraping webpages and creating images from HTML & CSS:
https://www.openfaas.com/blog/puppeteer-scraping/
Sponsors' portal - running on an RPi3
https://faasd.exit.openfaas.pro/function/trove
GitHub Sponsors activity feed to Slack
https://github.com/alexellis/sponsors-functions
https://github.com/civo/openfaas-functions
Rawkode's use-cases:
- Social sharing banners
- Automating live-streams and YouTube
- Social media monitoring
- Discord bots
Alistair Hey's use-cases
Slack bot (chatops) with openfaas functions and AWS Route53 integration
https://github.com/Waterdrips/ofc-demo
Adopters and commercial users of OpenFaaS
https://github.com/openfaas/faas/blob/master/ADOPTERS.md
PLONK stack - Kubernetes microservices & functions
https://www.openfaas.com/blog/plonk-stack/
Lightweight self-hosted FaaS engine (faasd)
https://github.com/openfaas/faasd
Hands-on eBook and course for faasd
https://gumroad.com/l/serverless-for-everyone-else
“Introduction to Serverless on Kubernetes”
https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-serverless-on-kubernetes
Pipedream - SaaS based serverless glue code
Extendable workflow automation
faas-flow - "Function Composition for OpenFaaS"
https://github.com/s8sg/faas-flow
Rudimentary YAML workflow runner for OpenFaaS