Serverless applications are growing in popularity among DevOps engineers. They provide a convenient, predictable way to run simple processes like CI/CD builds or automation scripts with no need to stand up infrastructure. They are also commonly used to deploy microservices. However, serverless applications present unique security challenges, one of them being authentication. How can you […]
Lightbend Launches Serverless Managed DevOps Service
Lightbend today unfurled a cloud service based on a serverless framework that provides developers with a managed DevOps platform to build applications that dynamically scale resources up and down as required. Brad Murdoch, executive vice president for strategy at Lightbend, said Akka Serverless provides access to its Java development platform environment that runs atop Kubernetes […]
Serverless Computing Brings New Security Risks
Attracted by lower costs and less operational overhead, serverless computing is an unmistakable undercurrent in the world of DevOps. Developers are drawn to the innovation because it requires no architecture to manage while offering continuous scaling for anything from a few requests per day to hundreds of thousands of requests per second. More than 50% […]
IBM Unifies Cloud Services to Simplify App Dev
IBM announced today that an IBM Cloud Code Engine service that unifies the cloud platforms on which applications are built and deployed is now generally available. Built on top of a serverless computing platform, IBM Cloud Code Engine is a managed service that unifies access to a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, a container-as-a-service (CaaS) environment and […]
Ambassador Insights: Cloud-Native
Cloud-native is a methodology and a mindset that’s been gaining traction in the DevOps and application development space as more organizations look to leverage the benefits of cloud infrastructure, including scalability. As with many other topics in the DevOps space, however, cloud-native isn’t easily definable; rather, it is loosely described by the technologies it utilizes, […]
Cloud Growth and Other 2020 Trends
Growth continued this year as even the COVID pandemic could not slow down the cloud The rise of COVID-19 defined 2020 for nearly every industry. Cloud computing is no exception, though growth in the sector continued this year. Gartner estimates that $257.9 billion will be spent on public cloud services in 2020, up 6.3% from […]
JAMstack Boards the Enterprise
Set course for development via JavaScript, APIs and Markup. Engage. In recent years, the JAMstack web development trend has garnered interest among front-end web designers. A 2020 study by Netlify found 1 in 3 sites serving a million users use JAMstack. JAMstack has been viewed as a development style for blogs and startups, but lately, […]
How Serverless Technologies Can Achieve Optimal DevOps Practices
Growing competition and increased customer expectations drive the speed of development. Adopting DevOps, meanwhile, can be a challenge, as it includes adjusting practices and new infrastructure. However, although engineering resources may be slim, serverless offers new solutions to tackle the DevOps challenge. From improved IoT devices to cost-effective machine learning applications, the serverless ecosystem is […]
Evolving from FaaS to a Truly Serverless Paradigm
True serverless helps alleviate some of the administration and management issues related to FaaS Creating distributed applications demands a thorough understanding of cloud infrastructures and architectures. Engineers must address complex operational issues, including provisioning, configuration and how their code will behave over a distributed architecture. The current standard is to architect programs into microservices, before […]
Serverless: Helping the Enterprise Scale DevOps
Serverless is the paradigm shift that allows engineers to innovate and move faster DevOps has been around for more than 10 years and it’s still misunderstood by many companies. You can’t buy “a DevOps,” but DevOps is critical to your business. In some ways, serverless is similar: a name that markets well but creates confusion […]
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