April 18, 2023
Via: InfoWorldServerless computing adoption soared in 2022, according to the 2022 CNCF Cloud Native Survey. With this growing popularity comes the potential risk of increasing cloud spending unless enterprises take a proactive approach to serverless costs through strategy, optimization, and monitoring. […]
December 10, 2021
Via: Info WorldHave you heard about serverless computing? Guess what, it’s not serverless at all. It just automates the allocation of back-end servers you’ll need to complete a particular task. Today we have dozens of types of serverless systems from databases to […]
April 5, 2021
Via: Info WorldThe word “cloud” is one of those nebulous words that people deploy with steadfast conviction. When politicians get in a bind, they like to say that the solution to a problem is more “education.” Doctors toss off the word “rest.” […]
Computing, Data Management, Internet, Wireless & Cloud
January 19, 2021
Via: Info WorldThe two most mentioned advantages of cloud-based platforms are pay-per-use billing and the ability to scale up to an almost unlimited number of resources. No more buying ahead of resource demand, attempting to guess the amount of physical hardware and […]
June 13, 2017
Via: Info WorldServerless computing is all the rage right now—and for several good reasons: It removes you from having to provision a server yourself; you simply write functions, and the resources you need are automatically allocated to that function. You pay only […]
Computing, Software & Applications
May 1, 2017
Via: Info WorldSometimes all you need is a single function. That’s the idea behind serverless computing, where individual functions spin up on demand, perform a minimal piece of work (serve as an API endpoint, return static content, and so on), and shut […]
May 1, 2017
Via: Info WorldAs part of the normal cycle of things, our most recent boom in enterprise technology development has slowed, which always leaves the industry breathless about whatever’s left that’s actually new. Witness, for example, the current mania over AI and machine […]
Computing, Software & Applications
November 22, 2016
Via: Info WorldSome call it “lambda architecture,” others call it “serverless computing.” Whatever the name, the idea is the same: Break applications into clusters of single functions that run on demand and on automatically managed resources. At Amazon, it’s called AWS Lambda, […]