faas

> I’m of the opinion that lambda-as-in-serverless is an evil. Are there any other serverless solutions that you'd recommend? Maybe a more open cloud function solution that could also be self-hosted, should the need arise? As far as I know, OpenFaaS might serve that niche for some, though of course there will be no cloud solutions as large as Lambda available: https://github.com/openfaas/faas Also there used to be IronFunctions, but those seem basically abandoned at this point: https://github.com/iron-io/functions

The call for MIT / Apache 2.0 licensing at the end of the post was surprising, given the issues that the author outlined. Grafana and Minio have both moved to AGPL / dual licensing from permissive licenses to stimulate licensing sales and revenue. As the maintainer of OpenFaaS, it's been a struggle to correct the balance of corporations freeloading [0] vs. contributing code or finances. GitHub Sponsors has also given very mixed results [1] In the same week we saw the maintainer of a popular OSS work almost throw in the towel [2] After 5 years, we're starting to see customer interest in paying for OpenFaaS - but only by holding new features and enhancements back i.e. Open Core. There are still problems with this approach, and paying customers end up funding all the R&D required for the free users - amongst other things like competition fro

You can run kubeless on top of a self hosted Kubernetes cluster: https://kubeless.io/ Edit: googling it looks like kubeless is actually no longer under active development. There is also https://github.com/openfaas/faas