Author: Sean Murphy

Experimenting with WebAssembly in a Serverless context

16. March 2020 / Sean Murphy / 0 Comments

Note

This post was first published on Medium by Leonardas (Badrie) Persaud – one of the students who was involved in this project. The post is republished here as the project was run within the context of the Software Maintenance and Evolution course run by Sebastiano and the project itself was supervised by Seán. The students involved in the project were UZH CS Master’s students: Badrie L. Persaud, Bill Bosshard, and, William Martini and all project related content is in the project’s github repo.

Serverless Zürich Meetup – 18.09.2019

3. October 2019 / Sean Murphy / 0 Comments

After a lengthy hiatus, the Serverless Zürich Meetup group has restarted regular operations. The group has been led by Murat Celep of Redhat and we have jumped in to help out.

Murat and Seán presenting an overview of the group

Serverless plumbing: Connecting a Nextcloud file store to Knative

23. May 2019 / Sean Murphy / 0 Comments

In a previous post, we showed how it’s possible to trigger a Knative service when a database update occurs using the Debezium Kafka Connect plug-in connected to Knative; here, we continue this work by describing how we connected a Nextcloud file storage service to Knative, triggering a Knative service/function when a file is uploaded to Nextcloud.

Serverless Platform with Database and Filestore integration

SPLab at Serverless Days 2019 Zürich

12. April 2019 / Sean Murphy / 0 Comments

Yesterday, we had the opportunity to attend the excellent ServerlessDays Zurich event which brought together folks interested in serverless technologies in Zurich. It was an all day event with 66 folks in attendance.

Open Source serverless technology choices: OpenWhisk or Knative

10. April 2019 / Sean Murphy / 0 Comments

With interest in serverless computing increasing rapidly, the question of which technology solutions will win is receiving much interest. Although there is significant industrial activity relating to serverless – driven primarily by the AWS Lambda ecosystem – there is a clear need for solutions which are not premised on lock-in to a single provider and which can work across clouds. OpenWhisk and Knative are two technologies which focus on this space – here we consider the relative positioning of these technologies based on our experience working with them.