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Apache OpenWhisk is an Apache Incubator project which provides a complete Serverless, or Function-as-a-Service, platform along with an ecosystem of curated functional packages,

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client SDKs and integration tooling. 

Background

Serverless computing is the evolutionary next stage in Cloud computing carrying further the abstraction offered to software developers using Container-based operating system virtualization. The Serverless paradigm enables programmers to just “write” functional code and not worry about having to configure any aspect of a server needed for execution. Such Serverless functions are single purpose and stateless that respond to event-driven data sources and can be scaled on-demand.   

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