Additionally, since Fission is open-source, Maskasky expects that it will be more extensible that Lambda, for developers to build whatever additional tooling and integrations that might be required.

But while Lambda is tied to AWS, TriggerMesh's field is wide open to any cloud supporting Kubernetes. Which, of course, these days, means all clouds essentially.

IBM is also launching a new cloud service called Bluemix OpenWhisk that represents an answer to Lambda event-driven computing service from public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS).

While I focus on AWS Lambda here, the same general principles will apply to using Microsoft Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, IBM Cloud Functions, Oracle Functions, and other FaaS platforms.

From AWS Lambda and Azure Functions to Knative and OpenFaaS, we have at least a dozen functions-as-a-service platforms to choose from. Here’s how to navigate the options.