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Commit 0149bf3a authored by Alex Ellis (VMware)'s avatar Alex Ellis (VMware)
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Remove AfterBurn reference


Afterburn is deprecated in favour of of-watchdog. Removing link
to prevent confusion.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Ellis (VMware) <alexellis2@gmail.com>
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* of-watchdog
Forking a new process per request has advantages such as process isolation, portability and simplicity. Any process can be made into a function without any additional code. The of-watchdog and its "HTTP" mode is an optimization which maintains one single process between all requests.
A new version of the watchdog is being tested over at [openfaas-incubator/of-watchdog](https://github.com/openfaas-incubator/of-watchdog).
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.
* 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).
### Working with HTTP headers
Headers and other request information are injected into environmental variables in the following format:
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