Introduction

Welcome to STACKIT Functions – STACKIT’s premier serverless functions-as-a-service offering!

Why Functions? Serverless functions offer the following benefits for your project:

• Scalable - Automatically scales up or down based on the number of incoming requests, ensuring efficient resource utilization, incl. scale-to-zero.
• Cost Efficient - You only pay for the compute time you use and don’t pay for idle. This can lead to significant cost savings compared to traditional server-based models.
• Serverless - The cloud provider manages the servers, allowing developers to focus solely on writing code.​ The cloud provider handles maintenance, updates, and security patches.
• Event Driven - Ideal for applications that need to respond to events in real-time, such as IoT devices or webhooks. Useful for data processing, real-time analytics, microservice architectures.
• Language Agnostic - Supports multiple programming languages, ​making it easy to develop and ​deploy functions in the language of your choice.
• Rapid Deployment - Enables user to iterate quickly.​ Great fit for Startups, R&D departements and every use case where results have to be delivered fast.

This documentation will help you create, develop, and deploy your first STACKIT Function using the STACKIT Functions CLI (sfn).