A serverless web-server

Today most web-apps are hosted on web servers like Apache etc. These web-servers are deployed virtual/physical servers in a data-centres. The only way you scale is via adding a load-balancer on top and having the right idle infrastructure which can be added as requests increase.

Lets take example of AWS. AWS today provides global components like CDN, Lambda@Edge, S3 etc.

With CDN you can delivery the content to your customer from nearest data-centre of your cloud provider.

With Lambda@Edge you get 5 seconds of compute time at nearest data-centre of your cloud provider.

With S3 you get access to globally synced file storage system scaled in real-time.

With these components available (content delivery, compute, storage) on cloud providers, imagine a web-server which

1. enables automatic content delivery via CDN.
2. identifies slow changing vs fast changing content and uses a global storage for faster response
3. leverages the edge-compute to execute the business logic of the request.

1. Import your existing application as an endpoint into a project
2. Publish the project to the cloud provider of your choice!

kitsune would automatically create a serverless web server on the cloud and use your existing application as the origin. The runtime would first trigger a deep crawl to identify (and copy if required) slow changing vs fast changing content of your application. It then would leverage a global storage (like S3 on AWS, Blob Storage on Azure) to store the slow changing content and accelerate the responses.

kitsune would also expose APIs for you to trigger a fresh deployment or manage the environment.