A Brief History Of Serverless

• OpenFaaS

  57 24,642 6.5 Go

  OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple

  

The FaaS platform gained a lot of popularity which resulted in many competitors. There was OSS providers like OpenFaaS or Fission. There were of course the commercial versions to like Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions.

• pipeline

  52 8,318 9.7 Go

  A cloud-native Pipeline resource.

  

There was also Knative Build but long story short, it spun out and became what we now know as Tekton

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• distribution-spec

  55 761 7.5 Go

  OCI Distribution Specification

  

Internally, Google used a platform called Borg which is still used by Google to this day. It also served as the basis for Kubernetes. Borg is a container-based platform whose goal was to allow developers to focus on code, not infrastructure. Google has an entire infrastructure team to manage the datacenters. This system came out circa 2004. This predates the advent of modern OCI Containers by about a decade.

• distrobuilder

  33 536 8.8 Go

  System container image builder for LXC and Incus

  

Docker introduced their new container technology at PyCon 2013. At this time, Docker containers were just a wrapper for Linux Containers but this fundamentally changed the landscape of computing (more on this later).

• fission

  13 8,242 8.1 Go

  Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes

  

The FaaS platform gained a lot of popularity which resulted in many competitors. There was OSS providers like OpenFaaS or Fission. There were of course the commercial versions to like Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions.

• deploy-cloudrun

  23 424 7.1 TypeScript

  A GitHub Action for deploying services to Google Cloud Run.

  

In 2019, Google announced Cloud Run. This was, in essence, a managed Knative. Now, Cloud Run doesn't run on Kubernetes, but it is Knative Serving API compliant. This means that you could take a standard Knative YAML manifest and use it to deploy your containers to Cloud Run with no issue.

• deploy-cloud-functions

  21 297 6.6 TypeScript

  A GitHub Action that deploys source code to Google Cloud Functions.

  

The FaaS platform gained a lot of popularity which resulted in many competitors. There was OSS providers like OpenFaaS or Fission. There were of course the commercial versions to like Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions.

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• google-cloud-cpp

  42 521 9.9 C++

  C++ Client Libraries for Google Cloud Services

  

In 2008, Google launched AppEngine. This product predates the formal existence of Google Cloud and can be considered Google Cloud's first offering.

• pack

  48 2,436 9.4 Go

  CLI for building apps using Cloud Native Buildpacks

  

For example, with BuildPacks developers don't even need to make a Dockerfile anymore. When integrated into a GitOps pipeline, serverless development becomes a breeze.

• aws-lambda-java-libs

  307 507 6.6 C++

  Official mirror for interface definitions and helper classes for Java code running on the AWS Lambda platform.

  

On this day, we both first learned about Lambda. This was the world's first public Functions-as-a-Service platform, better known as FaaS. They told us that this was the next evolution in Cloud Computing. With Lambda, you could now host snippets of code on AWS. There were no more idle workers, and you could auto-scale with minimal additional configuration required. Also, these snippets were event-driven by nature. This was a fully serverless platform.

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