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  Ask HN: Are there any open-source alternatives to AWS Lambda - tombert
  Hello!<p>I recently started playing with AWS Lambda, and the entire thing intrigues me, but due to some legal chicanery at work, I can&#x27;t use it for anything in production.<p>This got me thinking, though...Is there any good frameworks&#x2F;platforms&#x2F;whatever for running a Function as a Service on your own hardware?
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  mindcrash
  Here's something which recently got pretty popular on GitHub within just a few
  days. It's a framework to run serverless functions through Docker Swarm:
  
  [https://github.com/alexellis/faas](https://github.com/alexellis/faas)
  
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  marcc
  A couple of choices are fission from platform9 and kubeless from bitnami.
  
  Alternatively you could try IBM OpenWhisk or Azure Functions, both of which
  are open source.
  
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  siscia
  I worked on [https://github.com/siscia/effe](https://github.com/siscia/effe)
  which is basically a templare where you Write Your function in go.
  
  You compile it down to a single executable and then you do whatever you want
  with it.
  
  I can't provide the autodeploy part though...
  
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  stephenr
  This is something I've been curious about but not found many encouraging
  projects so far.
  
  Also, props for using a term that actually makes some sense (Functions as a
  Service) as opposed to that _other_ name thats so popular.
  
  Most things I've seen so far are docker-based, which is a non-starter for me.
  
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  flukus
  What are the features of AWS that you need? For example, do you really need an
  enormous amount of elasticity? If not then a single powerful server that
  people can ssh to might be fine. How long are you waiting for various jobs to
  finish?
  
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  tombert
  Mostly what I want is the ease of "writing a function as a callback and deploy
  it".
  
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  flukus
  Do you need the streaming features? IE, would a json endpoint in a technology
  of your choice be good enough? Would a message queue like rabbitmq be
  appropriate?
  
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  QuinnyPig
  I've heard a bit about iron.io, but couldn't tell you anything about them past
  that.
  
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  miller233
  As an ex-customer of iron.io, I'd suggest looking elsewhere. They've been
  downsizing for awhile - I wouldn't be surprised if they ceased operations any
  day now.
  
  