Serverless computing is one of the hottest trends in software second only to containers. But most serverless function platforms suffer from vendor lock-in and a poor developer experience. Ideally, companies should be able to run their functions on any cloud choosing the one that offers the best value with the knowledge that they could change providers if need be. Developers should be able to build and test on their laptops knowing that the functions platform they’re developing on locally is same platform that’s running in the cloud—not some approximation or emulation. The purpose of the recently announced Fn project is to respond to these needs and to deliver an open source Apache 2.0 licensed functions platform that can run anywhere: laptop, server, cloud. In this session we’ll introduce Fn, its polyglot function support, and its Docker-based architecture that allows it to run on any platform and with any scheduler including Kubernetes, Mesos, and Swarm.

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Serverless @ Oracle
Arvind Srinivasan
Amit Gupta

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What is Serverless?
“The next fron,er for modern app development!!”
or
A category of cloud services that raises the abstracGon level
so that developers never think about servers, VMs, or other
IaaS components

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There are sGll servers

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FuncGons
The serverless applica,on programming model

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Code, code, code
What is Serverless?

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Workflow and State
What is Serverless?

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Hockey-sGck ready
What is Serverless?
time
users

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All Change
What is Serverless?

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FuncGons Landscape
❌ Primarily proprietary, but some open source
❌ Many common concepts across plaTorms, but no standards
❌ Poor development experience—low fidelity between dev and prod
❌ Poor to non-existent Java support

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The Ideal FuncGons PlaTorm
• Open Source—no vendor lock-in
• Pla?orm Independent—laptop, server, cloud
• Approachable—easy for new users, low level controls for advanced users
• Docker Based—leverage Docker ecosystem
• Scheduler Independent—deploy to Kubernetes, Swarm, Mesos, etc.

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Fn—An open source FuncGons PlaTorm
www.fnproject.io

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Fn on Oracle Container Na,ve Applica,on Development Pla?orm
Coming Soon—Oracle FuncGons Service
Microservices
A collection of services,
frameworks and
libraries for the modern
cloud developer; based
on Cloud Native
Compute Foundation
Container
Pipelines
A market leading
solution for application
lifecycle management
with a Docker centric
product view
Container
Engine
Fully managed
container service based
on Kubernetes
Highly optimized and
self tuning JVM for the
Oracle Cloud
Java language features
for building distributed
systems.
Build --- Deploy --- Operate
Serverless
Function as a Service for
any language, best of
class for Java with
distributed state
management

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Fn – an open source FaaS
www.fnproject.io
Introducing the Fn project

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Really?
Introducing the Fn project
www.fnproject.io

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Awesome Java support (obviously)
Introducing the Fn project

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But great for all languages
Introducing the Fn project

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Go with the Fn Flow
Introducing the Fn project

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Demo 1.1 – our first Java funcGon

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Recap: A first-class local development experience
Deploy and
test in cloud
• ~ 30 seconds
Deploy
and test
locally
• ~ 10 seconds
Unit
tesGng
• ~ 1 second

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Recap: it’s just Java

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Demo 1.2

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Recap: sensible defaults, extensible when needed
1. Default input and output type coercions try to do the sane thing for JSON
formats.
2. Extensible API design means that you can customize to suit your
environment

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Fn Flow – Composing FuncGons

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Haven’t we been here before?

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Haven’t we been here before?

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Haven’t we been here before?
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Haven’t we been here before?
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Haven’t we been here before?

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Haven’t we been here before?

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Haven’t we been here before?
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Haven’t we been here before?

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Introducing Fn Flow

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It’s (sGll) just Java

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A flexible, open plaTorm

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Fn Flow

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www.fnproject.io

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