Tag: FaaS

How FaaS Is Disrupting Workflows: New CSP vs. CDN Services

Neil Glazebrook | May 28, 2020 | CDN services, cloud service providers, content delivery network, CSP, edge computing, FaaS, function as a service

Function as a Service (FaaS), the popular incarnation of serverless computing, along with containers, has played an important role in the migration from monolithic application architectures to those based on microservices. Its ...

Defining the Database Requirements of Dynamic JAMstack Applications

Brecht De Rooms | April 14, 2020 | APIs, cdn, content delivery networks, distributed database, FaaS, JAMstack, zero configuration

Zero-configuration hosting solutions such as Zeit Now and Netlify are taking the frontend community by storm due to their ease of use. If we add static site generators such as Gatsby/Next.js/Nuxt.js/Hugo/Jekyll to ...

Trends and Benefits of Serverless Computing

Subramonian Krishna Sarma | January 21, 2020 | containers, devops, FaaS, gitops, kubernetes, serverless, serverless computing

Gartner estimated that by 2020, 20% of the world’s organizations will have gone serverless. Serverless computing initiates a mind shift in the way businesses are run and improves the accuracy and impact ...

FaaS is Key to DevOps Efficiency

Mike Duensing | August 13, 2019 | agile environments, FaaS, function as a service, microservices, serverless

When AWS announced Lambda–a serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) technology offering–the idea of encapsulating a specific task into a function that resides in the cloud was introduced into mainstream access. Now, with the rising ...

The Limiting Factors of Microservices Also Apply to FaaS

Don Macvittie | December 21, 2018 | FaaS, function as a service, microservice, serverless

In enterprise development and deployment, the pattern is easy to detect. A big monolithic application is targeted for re-architecting as a microservices architecture. People excited about microservices get together and break up ...

Should You Go ‘Serverless’? The Pros and Cons

Asaf Yigal | January 2, 2017 | architectures, BaaS, backend as a service, cloud, FaaS, function as a service, IaaS, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, PaaS, platform-as-a-service, serverless

The popularity of the “serverless” term started to grow when Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014. Ever since, we’ve seen the term exponentially grow in use and reference, with more vendors entering ...