Fission with Soam Vasani

Answering the call from last episode, Soam Vasani joins your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc, today to tell them about Fission, a Function as a Service framework built on top of Kubernetes.

About Soam

Soam Vasani is a software engineer at Platform9 Systems Inc, where he works on the Fission framework. In the past he’s worked on distributed storage and other stuff at VMware. He’s interested in languages, tools and frameworks, and distributed systems.

Cool thing of the week

• Highly Available Kubernetes Clusters blog post
• Continuous Delivery in a microservice infrastructure with Google Container Engine, Docker and Travis Medium
• Delivering a better platform for your SQL Server Enterprise workloads blog post

Interview

• Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes blog post
• Kubernetes home page
• Fission: Serverless Functions for Kubernetes fission.io
• Fission’s code GitHub
• Fission examples GitHub
• Serverless Computing Wikipedia

Question of the week

Is there a way for me to secure my websocket connections on GCP? - TCP SSL Load Balancer docs - Deploying WebSockets cluster to GCP with Let’s Encrypt certificates Medium

Were will we be?

Mark just released a blog post on game development sessions at Cloud Next. Next he will be at GDC and afterwards he’ll be speaking at Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco.

Francesc, who just released a new episode of #justforfunc and a demo for Go plugins, will speak at the Go 1.8 release party in San Francisco. A bit later he’ll also be at Gophercon India.