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Gigi Sayfan
Gigi Sayfan
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Gigi Sayfan

Gigi Sayfan has been developing software for 25+ years in domains as diverse as instant messaging, morphing, chip fabrication process control, embedded multimedia applications for game consoles, brain-inspired ML, custom browser development, web services for 3D distributed game platforms, IoT sensors, virtual reality, and genomics. He has written production code in languages such as Go, Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi, JavaScript, and even Cobol and PowerBuilder for operating systems such as Windows (3.11 through 7), Linux, macOS, Lynx (embedded), and Sony PlayStation. His technical expertise includes databases, low-level networking, distributed systems, containers, unorthodox user interfaces, modern web applications, and general SDLC.
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Knative

Kubernetes doesn't have built-in support for FaaS. As a result, many solutions were developed by the community for the ecosystem. The goal of Knative is to provide building blocks that multiple FaaS solutions can utilize without reinventing the wheel.

But that's not all! Knative also offers the unique capability of scaling long-running services all the way down to zero. This is a big deal. There are many use cases where you may prefer to have a long-running service that can handle a lot of requests coming its way in rapid succession. In those situations, it is not the best approach to fire a new function instance per request. But, when there is no traffic coming in, it's great to scale the service to zero instances, pay nothing, and leave more capacity for other services that may need more resources at that time. Knative supports other important use cases including load balancing based on percentages, load balancing based on metrics, blue-green deployments...

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Published in: Jun 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781839211256

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Gigi Sayfan

Gigi Sayfan has been developing software for 25+ years in domains as diverse as instant messaging, morphing, chip fabrication process control, embedded multimedia applications for game consoles, brain-inspired ML, custom browser development, web services for 3D distributed game platforms, IoT sensors, virtual reality, and genomics. He has written production code in languages such as Go, Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi, JavaScript, and even Cobol and PowerBuilder for operating systems such as Windows (3.11 through 7), Linux, macOS, Lynx (embedded), and Sony PlayStation. His technical expertise includes databases, low-level networking, distributed systems, containers, unorthodox user interfaces, modern web applications, and general SDLC.
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