Mention Afterburn update
@@ -84,7 +84,21 @@ The watchdog can be configured through environmental variables. You must always
## Advanced / tuning
-**Working with HTTP headers**
+### of-watchdog and AfterBurn
+
+* of-watchdog
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+A new version of the watchdog is being tested over at [openfaas-incubator/of-watchdog](https://github.com/openfaas-incubator/of-watchdog).
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+This re-write is mainly structural for on-going maintenance. It will be a drop-in replacement for the existing watchdog and also has binary releases available.
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+* AfterBurn Optimizations
+
+Forking a new process per request has many advantages for isolation, simplicity and means any process can be a function without any additional code. AfterBurn is an optimization which maintains one single process between all requests and means a Java function can execute a round-trip in as little as 10-12ms without further tuning. It relies on a simple client library maintained by this project for each runtime language.
+
+You can read about [AfterBurn](https://blog.alexellis.io/openfaas-serverless-acceleration/) on my blog. It is supported by the of-watchdog and a version is also available for the existing watchdog in [PR #224](https://github.com/openfaas/faas/pull/224).
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+### Working with HTTP headers
Headers and other request information are injected into environmental variables in the following format:
@@ -132,7 +146,7 @@ Http_Query=action=quote&qty=1&productId=105
You can now use HTTP state from within your application to make decisions.
-**HTTP methods**
+### HTTP methods
The HTTP methods supported for the watchdog are:
@@ -144,7 +158,7 @@ Without a body:
> The API Gateway currently supports the POST route for functions.
-**Content-Type of request/response**
+### Content-Type of request/response
By default the watchdog will match the response of your function to the "Content-Type" of the client.
@@ -153,11 +167,11 @@ By default the watchdog will match the response of your function to the "Content
To override the Content-Type of all your responses set the `content_type` environmental variable.
-**I don't want to use the watchdog**
+### I don't want to use the watchdog
This is an unsupported use-case for the OpenFaaS project however if your container exposes HTTP POST on port 8080 then the OpenFaaS API gateway and other tooling will manage your container.
-**Tuning auto-scaling**
+### Tuning auto-scaling
Auto-scaling starts at 1 replica and steps up in blocks of 5:
@@ -172,4 +186,6 @@ You can override the upper limit of auto-scaling by setting the following label
com.faas.max_replicas: "10"
```
-If you want to disable scaling, set the `com.faas.max_replicas` value to `"1"`.
+In Docker Swarm you can disable scaling, set the `com.faas.max_replicas` value to `"1"`.
+
+As an alternative you can also remove or scale AlertManager to zero replicas.
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