Content deleted Content added
Line 13:
Google has released an alpha version of its serverless platform, which is called Google Cloud Functions,<ref name='vb-gcf'>{{cite web|url=http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/09/google-has-quietly-launched-its-answer-to-aws-lambda/|title=Google has quietly launched its answer to AWS Lambda|date=9 February 2016|accessdate=10 July 2016|last=Novet|first=Jordan|website=[[VentureBeat]]}}</ref> and supports Node.js.<ref name='forbes-gcf'>{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2016/02/09/google-brings-serverless-computing-to-its-cloud-platform/#5391a66525b8|title=Google Brings Serverless Computing To Its Cloud Platform|date=9 February 2016|accessdate=10 July 2016|last=MSV|first=Janakiram}}</ref>
IBM announced OpenWhisk as an open source serverless platform of its own at [http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2016/02/22/ibm-and-vmware-join-forces-to-move-millions-of-workloads-to-ibm-cloud InterConnect 2016]. In addition to supporting functions as a service, OpenWhisk offers features that include user-defined triggers, function execution rules, and function composition via sequences. OpenWhisk may be hosted on premise or hosted as a service as is the case with [http://ibm.biz/openwhisk IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk]. The source code is available on [https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk GitHub].
Microsoft followed up in 2016 by announcing Azure Functions, an under-development technology planned to be usable in both the Azure public cloud and on any other cloud environment, public or private.<ref name='techcrunch-azure'>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/31/microsoft-answers-aws-lambdas-event-triggered-serverless-apps-with-azure-functions/|title=Microsoft answers AWS Lambda’s event-triggered serverless apps with Azure Functions|date=31 March 2016|accessdate=10 July 2016|last=Miller|first=Ron|website=[[TechCrunch]]}}</ref>
| |||