Fastfn - Series - Misael Zapatahttp://misael.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/series/fastfn/Fastfn - Series - Misael ZapataHugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000fastfn Part 2: When a Function Isn't Enough (Services, Workloads, and the docker-compose I Didn't Want to Write)http://misael.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/fastfn-services-when-functions-arent-enough/Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Misael Zapatahttp://misael.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/fastfn-services-when-functions-arent-enough/ Functions are a great shape for request/response. They’re a terrible shape for a database. This is the part of fastfn where long-lived services joined the gateway — native docker, native process, Firecracker microVM — all behind one workload config.]]>fastfn Part 1: I Had a Problem (and Introduced Lua to My Life)http://misael.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/fastfn-lua-to-our-lives/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Misael Zapatahttp://misael.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/fastfn-lua-to-our-lives/<div class="featured-image"> <img src="/fastfn-lua-to-our-lives/images/cover.png" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"> </div>How building a personal FaaS turned into a rhyme with FastCGI — polyglot runtimes, a Lua gateway, and a JSON wire protocol. Part 1 covers the function side; Part 2 covers services.