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• Apache Openwhisk is open source framework for serverless functions that run in containers in any environment
• supports dynamic and compiled languages. Dynamic are simpler with a single json request and response and no jar files for action code needed
• supports event-driven async actions with controllers, load balancing and messaging with Kafka, Couchdb config db
• Competes with platform specific serverless frameworks

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