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Apache OpenWhisk vs Nuclio: What are the differences?

Apache OpenWhisk: A serverless, open-source cloud platform. Apache OpenWhisk (incubating) is a serverless, open source cloud platform that executes functions in response to events at any scale; Nuclio: Real-time serverless platform. nuclio is portable across IoT devices, laptops, on-premises datacenters and cloud deployments, eliminating cloud lock-ins and enabling hybrid solutions.

Apache OpenWhisk and Nuclio can be categorized as "Serverless / Task Processing" tools.

Some of the features offered by Apache OpenWhisk are:

  • Fine-grained resource consumption
  • Use any language, any service
  • Plug your service into Apache OpenWhisk

On the other hand, Nuclio provides the following key features:

  • Real-time performance
  • Simple debugging, regression and a multi-versioned CI/CD pipeline
  • Supports a large variety of open or cloud-specific event and data sources with common APIs

Apache OpenWhisk and Nuclio are both open source tools. It seems that Apache OpenWhisk with 4.1K GitHub stars and 791 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Nuclio with 2.83K GitHub stars and 256 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Apache OpenWhisk
Pros of Nuclio
  • 4
    You are not tied to a provider. IBM available however
  • 3
    Still exploring... its just intresting
  • 1
    Enterprise grade
  • 1
    Air gap friendly
  • 1
    Actively maintained and supported
  • 1
    Variety of runtimes
  • 1
    Variety of triggers
  • 1
    Secure image building
  • 1
    Scale to zero
  • 1
    Autoscaling
  • 1
    Parallelism
  • 1
    Performance
  • 1
    Open source

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What is Apache OpenWhisk?

OpenWhisk is an open source serverless platform. It is enterprise grade and accessible to all developers thanks to its superior programming model and tooling. It powers IBM Cloud Functions, Adobe I/O Runtime, Naver, Nimbella among others.

What is Nuclio?

nuclio is portable across IoT devices, laptops, on-premises datacenters and cloud deployments, eliminating cloud lock-ins and enabling hybrid solutions.

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What are some alternatives to Apache OpenWhisk and Nuclio?
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.
Kubeless
Kubeless is a Kubernetes native serverless Framework. Kubeless supports both HTTP and event based functions triggers. It has a serverless plugin, a graphical user interface and multiple runtimes, including Python and Node.js.
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
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