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Serverless

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Serverless is Where Application Infrastructure is Headed

Experts and visionaries in distributed systems believe serverless technologies are the future of application infrastructure — the next logical advancement after containers and microservices. And pockets of leading edge companies in industries such as media, travel and finance have already embraced serverless as a means to dramatically reduce operational overhead and streamline the DevOps cycle, while increasing scalability and resiliency.

“The future will be containerized and those containers will run on serverless infrastructure.”

— Brendan Burns, distinguished engineer at Microsoft and guest contributor on The New Stack.

Serverless functions, also often known as Functions as a Service (FaaS), are runtimes which execute applications but do not store data. They are the microservices of microservices, Adron Hall joked in an episode of The New Stack Analysts. And they are called based on an event that happens in the cloud.

In this model, organizations only pay for the resources they use — actual consumption — rather than pre-purchased services based on guesswork. The server management and capacity planning decisions are completely hidden from the developer, thus the term “serverless.” The servers are fully abstracted away. Instead, a cloud provider, like Amazon Web Services (AWS Lambda), Google Cloud (Google Cloud Functions) or Microsoft Azure (Azure Functions) dynamically manages the assignment and distribution of resources.

Serverless Benefits are Many

The benefits of serverless architectures are many. Pay-as-you go services have a cost benefit, but the true value lies in organizational efficiency. Developers spend more time writing code that directly benefits the business and IT spends less time maintaining old infrastructure. And it takes less time for developers to get code into production.

But the Serverless Ecosystem is Still Developing

Still, there are many challenges to serverless adoption. Serverless requires a new approach to development and a new set of a tools based on a DevOps culture. Latency and high performance can also become an issue in the cloud, as can monitoring, debugging and security.

The relatively limited ecosystem around serverless technologies, combined with the challenges of operating in the cloud, have led many organizations to approach serverless cautiously and in a phased adoption. Serverless code can be used alongside code deployed in traditional styles, such as a monolith or microservices — which makes it ideal to begin experimenting with for any number of use cases.

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Application Security / Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes / Programming Languages / Serverless

Assessing the Current State of Serverless Security

13 Jul 2017 2:00pm, by Benjamin Ball

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Programming Languages / Serverless

Benchmarking Serverless: IBM Scientists Devise a Test Suite to Quantify Performance

10 Jul 2017 12:34pm, by Joab Jackson

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Azure Logic Apps presentation at Serverlessconf 2017

Programming Languages / Serverless

Microsoft’s Logic Apps Aims to Bring Serverless Functionality to Non-Coders

27 Jun 2017 2:00am, by Mark Boyd

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Serverless / Storage

5 Handy ‘Serverless’ APIs for Web Development

22 Jun 2017 12:00pm, by Roger Jin

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Containers / Culture / Data / Kubernetes / Programming Languages / Serverless

How Microsoft Is Shifting Focus to Open Source

20 Jun 2017 1:00pm, by Swapnil Bhartiya

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Cloud Services / DevOps / Programming Languages / Serverless / Tools

The Need for Infrastructure Tooling in the Serverless Ecosystem

19 Jun 2017 2:00pm, by Benjamin Ball

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Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Monitoring / Serverless

OpenWhisk, Bluemix, and Event-Driven Architectures in the Cloud

16 Jun 2017 11:19am, by Benjamin Ball

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Containers / Data / DevOps / Serverless

Skipping Containers Altogether for Serverless Environments

15 Jun 2017 1:30pm, by Benjamin Ball

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Serverless

How Serverless Is Shaping the Future of Software Development

13 Jun 2017 2:00pm, by Benjamin Ball

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Cloud Services / Data / Machine Learning / Programming Languages / Serverless

Open Source Leaders: Matei Zaharia, Apache Spark

13 Jun 2017 6:00am, by Alex Handy

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Cloud Native / Culture / Edge Computing / Serverless

What the Future Holds for the Internet of Things

13 Jun 2017 2:00am, by Susan Hall

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Microservices / Serverless

Five Tips on Building Serverless Teams in an Enterprise

9 Jun 2017 1:00am, by Mark Boyd

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CI/CD / Microservices / Programming Languages / Serverless

Serverless Isn’t About Cost Savings, It’s About At-Bats

1 Jun 2017 3:00am, by Pete Johnson

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Dandelion

Serverless

Serverless and GraphQL: A Perfect Match for the New Cloud Paradigm

24 May 2017 3:00am, by Mark Boyd

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DevOps / Monitoring / Serverless

Dev or Ops, Observability is Crucial

22 May 2017 3:08pm, by Benjamin Ball

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Programming Languages / Serverless

Google Adds Kotlin Support to Android Developer Studio

17 May 2017 2:00pm, by Alex Handy

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Application Security / Serverless

Security in Serverless: What Gets Better, What Gets Worse?

16 May 2017 4:00am, by Mark Boyd

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Monitoring / Serverless

Microsoft Debuts Azure Functions for In-House Use, Adds Telemetry to Cloud Version

10 May 2017 9:44am, by Joab Jackson

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Cloud Services / Serverless

Three Startups Using IBM OpenWhisk Serverless to Transform Their Industries

10 May 2017 7:00am, by Jason McGee

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Microservices / Serverless

Serverless Works Best in API Architectures

9 May 2017 4:00am, by Mark Boyd

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Kubernetes / Serverless

Red Hat Embeds Amazon Web Services into OpenShift

4 May 2017 6:00am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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Cloud Native / Culture / Serverless

What Serverless and the Internet of Things Can Learn from Each Other

4 May 2017 1:00am, by Mark Boyd

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Programming Languages / Serverless

How to Build a Serverless, SEO-Friendly React Blog

1 May 2017 12:00pm, by Roger Jin

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Application Security / Cloud Native / Culture / Microservices / Serverless

iRobot Confronts the Challenges of Running Serverless at Scale

12 Apr 2017 1:00am, by Mark Boyd

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Data / Serverless

FaunaDB Harnesses the Serverless Cloud

3 Apr 2017 10:09am, by Susan Hall

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Monitoring / Programming Languages / Serverless

How Pernod Ricard Uses Amazon Web Services to Coordinate International Marketing Efforts

17 Mar 2017 12:00pm, by TC Currie

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