James Thomas Profile picture
software consultant. ex-devrel (serverless) & open-source dev @IBMCloud. wrote code, blog posts & conf talks. @openwhisk committer. @serverlessldn organiser.
Jan 18, 2019 4 tweets 3 min read
Published a blog post I've been wanting to write for a while...
"Loosely-coupled Serverless Functions With Apache @openwhisk"
jamesthom.as/blog/2019/01/1… Explains why to connect functions with events (rather than direct invocations) and how to use triggers & rules as a lightweight event stream for asynchronous operations in actions. @openwhisk users often don't realise you can use triggers without connecting external event sources