Topic: serverless
Vercel introduces a suite of serverless storage solutions
Vercel announced its suite of serverless storage solutions: Vercel KV, Postgres, and Blob to make it easier to server render just-in-time data as part of the company’s efforts to “make databases a first-class part of the frontend cloud.” Vercel KV is a serverless Redis solution that’s easy and durable, powered by Upstash. With Vercel KV, … continue reading
How Capital One Uses Python to Power Serverless Applications
Cultivating a loyal customer base by providing innovative solutions and an exceptional experience should be the goal of any company, regardless of industry. This is one of the main reasons why Capital One uses Python to power a large number of serverless applications, giving developers a better experience as they deliver business value to customers. … continue reading
Fermyon releases Spin 1.0 to simplify how developers build WebAssembly serverless functions
Fermyon Technologies, the serverless WebAssembly company that was spun out of Microsoft Azure’s Deis Lab team, today announced a major new release of its serverless functions framework based on WebAssembly, Spin 1.0. According to the company, Spin 1.0 was released in an effort to meet the needs of modern, full-stack developers, and offers support for … continue reading
Cockroach Labs announces general availability of serverless database
Cockroach Labs announced the general availability of its serverless database that can help teams accelerate their software design cycles. “We envision a world where your data-intensive applications effortlessly and securely serve millions of customers anywhere on the planet, with the exact right capacity for that moment – all enabled by a simple SQL API in … continue reading
Rookout launches its new serverless debugging experience
Observability company Rookout has announced the release of a new debugging experience for serverless applications. According to the company, even experienced developers have difficulty debugging ephemeral serverless applications. It believes that this new solution will help developers overcome this pain point. “Traditional APM tools can highlight and alert on problematic areas within serverless applications – … continue reading
Securing cloud-native applications
Cloud-native development has become the de facto way that companies make new apps due to its speed and cost savings. While it has opened up the world of Kubernetes, containers, and serverless to most organizations, they still need to grapple with certain complexities and security concerns that this style of development brings. Concerning the use … continue reading
How these vendors help companies with cloud-native security
We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help companies secure cloud-native applications. Their responses are below. Rani Osnat, VP strategy and product marketing at Aqua Security From day one, we started out focusing on containers, because that was the big technology that was pushed in the earlier days with … continue reading
Infrastructure management going extinct with serverless
It’s no surprise that organizations are trying to do more with less. In the case of managing infrastructure, they’re in fact trying to do much more in the area of provisioning software — not by lessening it but by eliminating infrastructure altogether, through the use of serverless technology. According to Jeffrey Hammond, the vice president … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: CodeFlare
CodeFlare is IBM’s open-source framework that simplifies the integration and scaling of big data and AI workflows onto the hybrid cloud. It drastically reduces the time to set up, run, and scale machine learning tests and expands on the functionality of Ray. Also, CodeFlare pipelines run with ease on IBM’s new serverless platform IBM Cloud … continue reading
Speed, security and reliability are now one
Companies around the world and across many industries have felt the pressure to release faster, yet they struggle to do so in a safe and reliable way that doesn’t compromise user trust. A lot of these companies think there’s a dichotomy between whether you can move fast or increase value. “I think the move fast … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Lightbend Akka Serverless, Contrast Scan, and GrapeCity announces table support for SpreadJS
Lightbend has announced the launch of Akka Serverless, a cloud-native development platform-as-a-service that enables the creation of cloud-native apps using any programming language and eliminates the need for databases in deploying business-critical apps. Akka has a simple, API-driven programming model that makes it easy for developers to define the data that they need so that … continue reading
Report: Serverless now a critical part of many software stacks
Serverless isn’t just a fad; it’s here to stay. According to Datadog’s State of Serverless 2021 report, AWS Lambda functions were invoked 3.5 times more often than they were in 2019. The company explained this is an indication that teams are making serverless a critical part of their software stacks, not just experimenting with it. … continue reading
