OpenFaaS is a developer-friendly platform for creating portable functions that can run on any cloud through Kubernetes. In this blog post, you will learn about use-cases, language templates, differences from traditional applications and cloud-based functions, how functions can be triggered, scaled and observed, and how to get started with OpenFaaS.

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Learn how to connect RabbitMQ to OpenFaaS to trigger functions from new and existing message queues.

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In this quickstart, we’ll guide you through how to build, scale and monitor your first Python function with OpenFaaS.

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Meet OpenFaaS Edge, a commercial distribution of faasd fused together with OpenFaaS Pro, for commercial use, with support and new features.

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Learn how Alex bought a set of premium woodworking chisels by monitoring their price using HTML scraping and a cron job with OpenFaaS. You can apply the same technique for things you’d like to monitor & buy, or for automating other tasks.

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Learn how a Functions as a Service or (FaaS) capability can be integrated into your platform. With a FaaS capability, customers can provide their own code to execute, and your own staff can extend your product without going through release cycles. OpenFaaS provides a turnkey solution with modular components and REST APIs that are easy to integrate and adapt to your own needs.

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In the first part of our mini-series on autoscaling, we looked at how autoscaling has evolved in OpenFaaS going all the way back to 2017, and how today you can use Requests Per Second, Capacity (inflight requests), and CPU utilization to scale functions horizontally.

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In this blog post I’ll show you how to build functions using the new builder package for the Go SDK for OpenFaaS.

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We look at the story of autoscaling functions with OpenFaaS and Kubernetes - past, present, and future.

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A long standing request from OpenFaaS users has been to add built-in authentication for functions. This would allow you to secure your function endpoints without having to write any additional code.

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