{"id":3769,"date":"2019-07-13T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T09:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2019-07-13T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T09:32:12","slug":"an-introduction-to-serverless-and-openwhisk-for-kafka-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3769","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to serverless and OpenWhisk for Kafka users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk at <a href=\"https:\/\/kafka-summit.org\/events\/kafka-summit-london-2019\/\">Kafka Summit London<\/a> this year about <a href=\"https:\/\/openwhisk.apache.org\/\">Apache OpenWhisk<\/a>. It was aimed at <a href=\"https:\/\/kafka.apache.org\">Kafka<\/a> users who want to know what the serverless hype is all about. <\/p>\n<p>I covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a simple introduction of what serverless is for\n<\/li>\n<li>an introduction to some of the serverless platforms available\n<\/li>\n<li>a quick crash course in how to get started with Apache OpenWhisk\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also had a quick tangent looking into how Apache OpenWhisk itself uses Kafka internally, because I thought that was interesting!<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/dalelane\/an-intro-to-serverless-and-openwhisk-for-kafka-users\" title=\"An intro to serverless and OpenWhisk for Kafka users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slides are on SlideShare<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to see a higher-res version of any of them. <\/p>\n<p>If this convinces you to give OpenWhisk a try, I have a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3741\">how to get started with OpenWhisk<\/a> that has all the commands you need to copy\/paste to get yourself a working OpenWhisk environment connected to a Kafka source of events. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vidyard_iframe\" src=\"\/\/play.vidyard.com\/wKFg9Q4d4q5LhULBP77b2J.html?v=3.1.1\" width=\"450\" height=\"260\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/Fu2pKXPhCbjs5n\" width=\"450\" height=\"310\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk at Kafka Summit London this year about Apache OpenWhisk. It was aimed at Kafka users who want to know what the serverless hype is all about. I covered: a simple introduction of what serverless is for an introduction to some of the serverless platforms available a quick crash course in how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[593,583,584,592],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-code","tag-apachekafka","tag-ibmeventstreams","tag-kafka","tag-openwhisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}