OpenWhisk VS circe

Serverless functions are now offered by many cloud providers, as well as having options like OpenFaaS, Knative, Apache's Openwhisk and more from the open source community that run in environments ranging from one server all the way up to globally replicated private clusters.

OpenWhisk - https://openwhisk.apache.org

The serverless functions with Digital Ocean are based on Apache Open Whisk, so the service has additional name space, which need to go into the URL.

The two biggest options are OpenWhisk and OpenFaas. Check out /r/serverless for more options. I'm experimenting currently with OpenFaas as it's the lighter weigh to of the two.

If you meant lambda for cloud functions provided by Amazon then this is open source and free, as long as you host it yourself: https://openwhisk.apache.org/

There are so many of them in big data, e.g. Kafka, Spark, Flink, Delta, Snowplow, Finagle, Deequ, CMAK, OpenWhisk, Snowflake, TheHive, TVM-VTA, etc.

The foundation is Apache OpenWhisk https://github.com/apache/openwhisk with DO specific customization to work with managed databased, log shipping, and other DO specific capabilities. The closest programming model is AWS Lambda in terms of the semantics and execution model.

Using Circe so I define some classes that contain my custom Encoder[BusinessObject] in a file and I use that whenever I want to save/store a record, or handle a web request or respose. I also represent my mongo queries as JSON objects that I can freely build then pass to the driver.

Circe adopters should be using Scala https://github.com/circe/circe

If you look at Circe's github repo you will see a very large list of very recognizable companies, that should give you some idea. Circe isn't the ONLY Json parsing library, but it is probably the most popular, so - should give you a rough idea of the types and variety of companies using Scala.

Has the worst error messages I've ever seen for a parser. "Attempt to decode value on failed cursor" is not helpful when all you have is missing fields. Has been an issue for 5 years.

Circe tries to drop Scala 2.12 support in retaliation for not enough users paying them.

Circe: https://circe.github.io/circe/

PR for the same functionality in Scala3: https://github.com/circe/circe/pull/1800

Otherwise I tend to just use ZIO-JSON or Circe both of which have been updated for Scala 3.

I've updated results of benchmarks of 12 JSON parsers for Scala: - AVSystem's scala-commons - Borer - Circe - DSL-JSON - Jackson - jsoniter-scala - Play-JSON, - play-json-jsoniter - Spray-JSON - uPickle - weePickle - zio-json