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FaaS vs OpenFaaS: What are the differences?

Developers describe FaaS as "Functions as a Service (on Docker Swarm)". FaaS is a platform for building serverless functions on Docker Swarm Mode with first class metrics. Any UNIX process can be packaged as a function in FaaS enabling you to consume a range of web events without repetitive boiler-plate coding. On the other hand, OpenFaaS is detailed as "Serverless Functions Made Simple for Kubernetes and Docker". Serverless Functions Made Simple for Docker and Kubernetes.

FaaS and OpenFaaS can be primarily classified as "Serverless / Task Processing" tools.

FaaS and OpenFaaS are both open source tools. It seems that OpenFaaS with 14.8K GitHub stars and 1.17K forks on GitHub has more adoption than FaaS with 14.8K GitHub stars and 1.17K GitHub forks.

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Pros of FaaS
Pros of OpenFaaS
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    Simple way to build serverless applications
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    Open source
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    Ease
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    Autoscaling
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    Community
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    Documentation
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    Async

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What is FaaS?

FaaS is a platform for building serverless functions on Docker Swarm Mode with first class metrics. Any UNIX process can be packaged as a function in FaaS enabling you to consume a range of web events without repetitive boiler-plate coding.

What is OpenFaaS?

Serverless Functions Made Simple for Docker and Kubernetes

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What tools integrate with FaaS?
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What are some alternatives to FaaS and OpenFaaS?
Serverless
Build applications comprised of microservices that run in response to events, auto-scale for you, and only charge you when they run. This lowers the total cost of maintaining your apps, enabling you to build more logic, faster. The Framework uses new event-driven compute services, like AWS Lambda, Google CloudFunctions, and more.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.
Azure Functions
Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in virtually any Azure or 3rd party service as well as on-premises systems.
Google Cloud Functions
Construct applications from bite-sized business logic billed to the nearest 100 milliseconds, only while your code is running
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