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Serverless Computing:Customer AdoptionInsights & Patterns


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Michael BehrendtIBM Distinguished EngineerChief Architect, Serverless/FaaS & IBM Cloud Functions


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Decreasing concern (and control) over stack implementation

Bare Metal

Virtual machines

Functions

Containers


IBM Cloud Functions

Apache open source project:openwhisk.org

FaaS platform to execute code in response to events

OpenWhisk


IBM Cloud Functions

FaaS platform to execute code in response to events

IBM Cloud Functions

IBM Cloud Functions:Managed service as part ofthe IBM Cloudbluemix.net/openwhisk

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The Watson Data PlatformPublic, Private, Licensed

Ingest

Data

Compute Infrastructure Mgmt

Dev Services

Infrastructure Physical NetworkStorage + more...

Messaging LoggingBlockchainContainers + more...

Cloud

Application DsX Virtual agentHealthcare FinancialServices

Conversation Discovery Compare + Comply

Knowledge Query Tone Analysis Personality

Insights

VisualRecognition Speech Document

ConversionNat. Language Understanding

Nat. Language Classifier + more...

AI

Logistics IoT

IBM Watson and Cloud Platform


IBM Cloud Functions

Triggers(response)

Rules

Actions(code)

Source (events) Results

OpenWhiskConcepts

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IBM Cloud Functions

Supported Languages

Multi-language

Support

CommunityEfforts

… and more to come

JS/NodeJS 6

Java

Python 3

Swift 3

Docker

Haskell

…

Scala

PHP

IBM Cloud Functions


IBM Cloud FunctionsOpenWhisk

Non-blocking

Blocking

Periodic

Support for different invocation models

IBM Cloud Functions



Supports higher-level programming constructs Chaining/

Sequencing

Action 1

Action 2

ParameterBinding

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Composition, Control Flow and State Management

IBM Cloud FunctionsA Differentiated Model for FaaS Composition

• Respond to the need for more complex, coordinated flows required for end to end solutions across cloud Services

• Enable more expressive programming through direct integration of new constructs into existing language bindings

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EventProvider Periodic IBM Cloudant Message Hub

Mobile Push Github

OpenWhisk

IBM App Connect

IBM Cloud Functions



Granular pricingPay only for the exact time your actions run. When an action is not invoked, it’s not in memory, so you don’t pay anything.

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Reduce CostsTime an action was running* memory allocated to action

$ 0.000017 per GBsFree tier: 400000 GBs

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IBM Cloud FunctionsWhat is serverless good for?

OpenWhisk allows you to build up an entirely serverlessapplication architecture


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Mobile backend

What is OpenWhisk good for?

Outsource compute-intensive tasks to a powerful & scalable serverless platform and implement your actions even without changing the programming language.

What is IBM Cloud Functions good for?


IBM Cloud FunctionsWhat is Serverless good for?

Mobile backend

The Weather Godshttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weather-gods/id1041512978?mt=8

What is OpenWhisk good for?What is IBM Cloud Functions good for?


IBM Cloud FunctionsThe Weather Gods High Level Architecture

Weather Checker

TWC

Weather Model

Group Scanner

1Cron trigger every 3 minutes

Cloudant

Set flag to check weather for each user location in the group

For each user location updated

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Weather Collector Trigger

Snow Scanner

Rain Scanner

Wind Scanner

Storm Scanner

Frost Scanner

ETC Scanner

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Notification

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Notification Trigger

Bluemix

Notification

Weather Gods

OpenWhisk Actions

External

Data

Triggers


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Data processing



IBM Cloud Functions

Data processing

Ideally suited for working with multimedia data like audio, image and video data:Audio normalizationImage rotation, sharpening, noise reduction or Thumbnail generationImage OCR’ingVideo transcoding…



IBM Cloud Functions

Data processing

http://ecc.ibm.com/case-study/us-en/ECCF-CDC12387USEN

What do our customers do with IBM Cloud Functions?

10x faster90% less cost


IBM Cloud FunctionsSiteSpirit High Level Architecture

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Costumer DB

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Crop Resolutions Buckets?

Sequence

Trigger

Action

Manager DB

Object Storage

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Data processing

What do our customers do with IBM Cloud Functions?

Less cost <$2 for all paper checksprocessed within 1 year


IBM Cloud FunctionsSantander High Level Architecture

IBM Bluemix Openwhisk

Object Storage

Archived Audited Parsed Processed

Resized Images

Represents System of Records

Save Images

Find Checks

ChangesChanges

ParseCheck

OCREngine

Record Deposit

Email Notification

Trigger ActionIBM Cloudant

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IBM Cloud Functions

Cognitive



IBM Cloud Functions

Cognitive

Skylinkhttps://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/skylink



IBM Cloud FunctionsWhat is Serverless good for?

Abilisensehttps://www.abilisense.com/


IBM Cloud FunctionsAbilisense High Level Architecture

AbilisenseOpenwhisk

Compose for MangoDB

IBM Weather Channel

IBM Watson IOTPlatform

Object Storage

SoundProcessing

Machine Learning

NotificationsHTTP

REST

Abilisense

MQTT

Smart Cities

REST

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Assumptions

Home Devices 1.000 Un.

Avg. Sound File Size 1 MB

Avg. Number of Sound Readings 10 Monthly

IoT Reading Frequency 1 Hourly

IoT Recording Data Size 2 KB

Weather Data Reading Frequency 1 Hourly

Weather Data Reading Size 2 KB

Weather Data Total Capability 1.41 MB

AbilisenseAssumptions

Runtime Action per Millisecond 5

Memory MB 512

Number of Executions 5,000,000.00

Monthly Cost $14.45


IBM Cloud Functions

Potential research areas• Problem determination for apps with a large number of actions

• Latency reduction

• Density increase

• State handling

• Building complex apps

• …


IBM Cloud Functions

Commercial offering home:bluemix.net/openwhisk

Open-source offering home: openwhisk.org

Slack: slack.openwhisk.org

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Github github.com/openwhisk

Twitter twitter.com/openwhisk

Medium medium.com/openwhisk

Slideshare slideshare.net/OpenWhisk

Youtube youtube.com/channel/UCbzgShnQk8F43NKsvEYA1SA

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