Merge branch 'draft_1' of https://github.com/alexellis/faas into draft_1

README.md

-# faas
-Functions as a service
+# faas - Functions As A Service
+
+This project provides a way to run Docker containers as functions on Swarm Mode. 
+
+* Each container has a watchdog process that hosts a web server allowing a JSON post request to be fowarded to a desired process via STDIN. The respose is sent to the caller via STDOUT.
+* A gateway provides a view to the containers/functions to the public Internet and collects metrics for Prometheus and in a future version will manage replicas and scale as throughput increases.
 
 Minimum requirements: Docker 1.13
 
@@ -10,9 +14,9 @@ This container acts in a similar way to the API Gateway on AWS. Requests can be
 
 Features:
 
-* auto-scaling of replicas as load increases
-* backing off of replicas as load reduces
-* unique URL routes for serverless functions
+* [todo] auto-scaling of replicas as load increases
+* [todo] backing off of replicas as load reduces
+* [todo] unique URL routes for serverless functions
 * instrumentation via Prometheus metrics at GET /metrics
 
 watchdog
@@ -23,7 +27,7 @@ This binary fwatchdog acts as a watchdog for your function. Features:
 * Static binary in Go
 * Listens to HTTP requests over swarm overlay network
 * Spawns process set in `fprocess` ENV variable for each HTTP connection
-* Only lets processes run for set duration i.e. 500ms, 2s, 3s.
+* [todo] Only lets processes run for set duration i.e. 500ms, 2s, 3s.
 * Language/binding independent
 
 Complete example: