Open Source

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an area of cloud computing that is growing rapidly. There are following issues to conside here: Principles of FaaS Open source and 3rd party FaaS providers 4 components to consider when building microservices as functions Cold Start vs Warm Start Different Triggers that can start FaaS: Triggering Based on New Events, Triggering Based on Consumer Group Lag, Triggering on a Schedule, Triggering Using Webhooks, Triggering on Resource Events Maintaining State Two patterns of functions calling other functions: Event-driven and Direct-call Termination and Shutdown Tuning and Scaling All of these is disclosed in the Chapter 9 of the book we are currently studying:

There are a number of businesses and business tasks when it is necessary to visually design, change and control the execution of business processes.

Large companies like SAP, IBM, Oracle play in this market and offer their heavy and expensive solutions.

But there is also a lighter and cheaper solution in this field.