Open Source Summit North America 2017

Functions as a service (FaaS) provide operational advantages over traditional architectures. Internet of Things, Chatbots and other programmatic platforms have benefitted from being implemented in this way. Implementing and deploying FaaS often comes with vendor lock in with platforms like Amazon Lambda and Azure Functions. OpenWhisk provides an open source alternative to implementing and deploying FaaS architectures. In this talk I cover the advantages of developing and deploying data pipelines in this fashion. While presenting these intricacies, I will walk the audience through creating a data pipeline with OpenWhisk.