Glad to see this work reaching maturity. As Markus noted I think there could be more convergence down the line too.
Looking forward to the PR. -r > On Jul 16, 2018, at 4:17 AM, David Breitgand <davi...@il.ibm.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Pavel and I are working on lean OpenWhisk. The idea is to allow an efficient > use of OpenWhisk with small form factor compute nodes (e.g., IoT gateways). > The proposition is to get rid of Kafka, have controller and invoker compiled > together into a "lean" controller-invoker (have a Gradle project for that) > with controller calling the invoker's method directly via an in-memory object > (a queue, which is also loaded via SPI) via a new pluggable load balancer > that is selected via SPI using configuration file property setting. Here is a > blog > https://medium.com/@davidbr_9022/lean-openwhisk-open-source-faas-for-edge-computing-fb823c6bbb9bproviding > some more detail and points to our fork. > > An important thing is that we are _not_ proposing a new project. Rather we > want to submit a PR to allow for a lean distro of OpenWhisk that uses the > same OpenWhisk code base and consumes everything downstream by virtue of > exploiting SPI. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks. > > -- david > =============================================================== > David Breitgand, Ph. D. > Senior Researcher, IBM Research -- Haifa, Israel > Tel: +972-4-829-1007 | Mobile: +972 54 7277-881 > "Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in", > William Eardley IV > ============================================================== >
