[slack-digest] [2019-07-01] #general

[OpenWhisk Team Slack <ra...@apache.org>]

2019-07-01 14:06:36 UTC - Yang: Hi there, I’m a grad student at Columbia University, and I’m doing some research on improving the performance of serverless computing. If I understand correctly, cloud functions are stateless, and developers need to persist data using a cloud storage service. In case that multiple functions operate on the same data, each function has to download the data from the cloud storage. I was wondering if you have ever considered caching the data at OpenWhisk so that multiple functions can reuse the same data without fetching it independently? Thanks!
https://openwhisk-team.slack.com/archives/C3TPCAQG1/p1561989996107500
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2019-07-01 14:24:11 UTC - James Thomas: @Yang :wave: I don’t think anyone has done anything concrete - although I see lots of interests in this space!
https://openwhisk-team.slack.com/archives/C3TPCAQG1/p1561991051108000
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2019-07-01 14:24:29 UTC - James Thomas: there’s been lots of talk in serverless about shared storage between functions
https://openwhisk-team.slack.com/archives/C3TPCAQG1/p1561991069108400
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2019-07-01 14:24:56 UTC - James Thomas: committers - anyone like to review this?
<https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-client-js/pull/178>
+1 : Rodric Rabbah
https://openwhisk-team.slack.com/archives/C3TPCAQG1/p1561991096108700
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2019-07-01 14:28:14 UTC - Yang: Thanks @James Thomas! I did some hack-ish proof-of-concept implementation and saw pretty good results. I look forward to contributing to OpenWhisk:)
https://openwhisk-team.slack.com/archives/C3TPCAQG1/p1561991294109900
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