Mark Boyd
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How Serverless Platforms Could Power an Event-Driven AI Pipeline
Orit Nissan-Messing, Co-founder and Chief Architect at serverless platform provider Iguazio, says that event-driven AI can lead to immediate insights by reducing the time to under a second between when an event occurs and the data needed to drive action. → Read More
Epsagon Plug-In Packages External Serverless Code for AWS Lambda
Serverless monitoring tool provider Epsagon has released a new tool aimed at reducing duplication and increasing developer velocity when building their serverless functions. The serverless-package-external plugin allows developers to add the external code to their AWS Lambda configuration files. → Read More
PureSec: The Most Dangerous Current Security Risks to Serverless
Overprivileged function permissions and event data injection are among two of the biggest security threats to serverless environments, according to a list of the top 10 serverless security threats, recently compiled by Ory Segal, co-founder and CTO of PureSec, a serverless tool entirely focused on serverless security. In serverless systems, the underlying infrastructure is secured by … → Read More
Managing State in Serverless
For Confluent product manager Gwen Shapira, serverless technologies, as they are used by developers, are like a fixie bike. “Hipsters love these bikes because they are simple, but then you hit a hill and you understand why you need gears,” Shapira says. Here's some of her tips, from the Serverless Days NYC conference, for creating a more road-worthy serverless deployment. → Read More
Serverless Pricing: Estimating Consumption Costs
Serverless brings the idea of consumption-based pricing to the forefront of IT budgeting and, in time, will totally recast decision-making, and organizational structure for companies and businesses. Already, serverless has made new startups more viable and have allowed enterprises to experiment faster with fewer risks, as production does not rely on allocating server infrastructure to … → Read More
Case Study: How Fabric Uses Serverless to Disrupt the Life Insurance Market
Fabric is an insurance startup designed for new parents, one with the aims of becoming “the place where all families come to start their financial life,” said company co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Steven Surgnier For now, the company offers offer a free will service and “simple, fast accident and life insurance.” Both products are completely provided … → Read More
Serverless Analytics: Metrics, Collection and Visibility
Analytics in serverless systems comprise three components: What data and metrics to collect How to collect data How to interpret and use the data. Let’s take a look at all three. What Data to Collect in Serverless Systems Nate Taggart, CEO and co-founder of the serverless management software Stackery, said there are three types of metrics … → Read More
Serverless Monitoring in the Age of Infrastructure-as-Code
Monitoring serverless systems requires a new level of acceptance of where infrastructure as code and production testing is taking software development in the age of distributed application architecture at scale. “We are seeing a fast shift in the development of software,” said Or Weis, CEO and co-founder of serverless monitoring tool, Rookout. “Software now has … → Read More
Serverless Testing in Production
The still-maturing ecosystem of serverless means that there is not a range of tools available for specific aspects of application deployment within this infrastructure style. But also, the nature of serverless as an events-driven architecture — where cloud providers or others are responsible for autoscaling and managing the resources necessary for compute — means that … → Read More
Migrating to Serverless in an Production Setting
For large enterprises, serverless often seems like a tech opportunity that remains just out of reach. For many, a dependency on legacy infrastructure, an established internal culture that favors management over autonomy, and a risk aversion to the cloud can seem to take serverless off the table as a potential option. But, still, large enterprises … → Read More
5 Ways Serverless Changes Software Development
As a new approach to the design of distributed systems at scale, serverless ripples out in waves of changes across an implementer’s stack. First come the experiments to test the value of serverless: does it reduce costs, increase developer velocity, and integrate well with existing IT systems? But once this is being tested it becomes … → Read More
7 Essential DevOps Tools to Maintain Serverless Operations
Serverless architectures are attracting attention for their ability to support faster development times alongside their potentially lower operational costs, due to a pay-only-for-the-compute-you-use model. That means that companies implementing serverless do not need as great a visibility into the infrastructure that spins up the compute power. One of the key benefits of serverless architectures… → Read More
Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture
Serverless technologies are gaining traction in both enterprise and startup environments, at a pace much faster than seen with containers. But as serverless technologies are trialled on discrete projects, they are starting a domino effect that is influencing business in unexpected ways. → Read More
Prisma Aims to Unite the Polyglot of Databases with GraphQL
A new open source project for database backend composition, Prisma allows businesses to manage a polyglot database environment, and access datasets across different systems through a unified GraphQL endpoint. Co-founder and CEO of the company behind the software Johannes Schickling says the need for Prisma arose out of the way distributed, at-scale applications and business systems are … → Read More
Why Serverless Requires Rethinking the IT Department
There is a story from Melissa Jurkoic, Senior Solutions Architect for Enterprise Solutions at Amadeus Hospitality. When her team was introducing APIs into the organization, they found that they were often challenging existing ways of working between business and tech leads. Overcoming those obstacles paid off, and as the API team grew, they realized they … → Read More
CNCF's CloudEvents Spec Could Facilitate Interoperability across Serverless Platforms
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) wants to foster greater interoperability between serverless platforms, through its release of the CloudEvents specification. The project is at version 0.1 iteration, and hopes that it will be approved as a CNCF sandbox project in June. The CloudEvents specification provides (formerly called OpenEvents) a path that would allow any two components … → Read More
China Railway's Private Cloud Infrastructure Provides a Roadbed for Business Growth
Building and managing the world’s largest railway network on the open sourced OpenStack suite of technologies is fundamentally changing the way China Railway thinks about its business, and, as lead architect Mingxing Gao, points out, has implications for any large traditional enterprise looking to move to cloud infrastructure. Between 2010 and 2016, the China Railway … → Read More
Coder-as-Accountant: Serverless System Design Is Being Based on Costing Models
Calculating the costs of building an application with a serverless architecture is set to fundamentally shift the role of developers and systems architects within an enterprise. While in the past, tech leads may have needed to design solutions within certain budget parameters, with serverless this flips on its head, with the applications being built likely … → Read More
Are Serverless Technologies Immune to Meltdown?
Engineers and DevOps leads are sharing the cost implications and performance downgrades of running their systems because of in-house and cloud-based CPU challenges arising from the Meltdown security patches. TNS analyst Lawrence Hecht’s round-up of the Sysdig, AWS and Red Hat last week pointed to some early data on the impacts that may become an … → Read More
Binaris Wants to Reduce Latency in Serverless Productions
The emerging list of what use cases are best suited for serverless — cron jobs, data and media processing, and ETL — may be about to change significantly if new player Binaris is able to build some market share based on its still-in-alpha platform. Binaris is an independent functions-as-a-service platform, focused on providing a predictable, … → Read More