Open Lambda
Project collaborators
Tyler Caraza Harter, Computer Sciences
Maria Oros and Abe Megahed, DSI
Project start and end dates
December 2025-February 2026
OpenLambda started as a serverless research platform, but for a long time we have wanted to make it useful to a broader audience. Bridging that gap between prototype and product is hard to do alone, and recent collaboration with DSI has changed the trajectory of the project. I have never been more optimistic about turning OpenLambda into a serverless platform with broad appeal, and DSI has been central to that.
Project summary
DSI collaborated with Tyler Caraza-Harter, teaching associate professor in the UW–Madison Computer Sciences Department, to advance the integration of OpenLambda as a practical, serverless platform capable of supporting real-world applications. OpenLambda is an Apache-licensed, serverless computing project, primarily written in Go and based on Linux containers. Its primary goal is to enable exploration of new approaches to serverless computing. This project focused on demonstrating OpenLambda’s capabilities in production-oriented workloads and improving how those capabilities are communicated to the broader community.
Tyler’s team integrated an existing agricultural forecasting API — already built and deployed with FastAPI — into OpenLambda, demonstrating how a real-world production application can be onboarded onto the platform with minimal changes. This served as a concrete proof-of-concept for OpenLambda’s ability to support modern Python web services and asynchronous application architectures in practice. DSI helped establish the project’s public-facing identity by building the OpenLambda website using MyST Markdown and contributing technical documentation and deployment materials.
These efforts contribute to the broader goal of evolving OpenLambda from a research tool into a production-oriented, serverless platform with broad community adoption and support for modern cloud-native workloads.