KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018

Fibonacci is an enterprise level serverless computing service on JD.com’s e-commerce platform. It is built on top of OpenFaaS and includes significant enhancements and new features that make it suitable for large scale production use. Specifically, Fibonacci provides seamless integration into JD’s internal container cloud platform, the world’s largest Kubernetes production cluster. The new features include FaaS-optimized elastic scheduling, web control panel and GPU support. Fibonacci has been powering applications on JD Mall, such as intelligent product image processing, automated IT operations and chatbot, greatly simplifying the application development and deployment, and improving resource efficiency. We will present Fibonacci’s design and implementation, share our experience and lessons in developing and applying serverless computing to large scale e-commerce platforms.