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12/20/2021

Avoiding lock-in risks with Serverless

The abstraction provided by serverless platform imposes some lock-in risks. This post talks about how to avoid/minimize them

12/20/2021

As serverless adoption increases, how does it impact the CI/CD pipeline and process? No credible organization today uses a development model without DevOps. Key to establishing DevOps that brings agility to application deployment is a friction-free CI/CD pipeline that allows software code to move from development environment to production. Serverless is slowly bringing in a mindset change among developers and they are moving from local development to cloud-based development and deployment models using browser-based IDEs or IDEs integrated with cloud deployment platforms like serverless platforms....

How does a serverless platform change the CI/CD pipeline? What are the advantages they bring to seamless DevOps as code moves to production

11/16/2021

Does Serverless make sense in a Multi-Cloud world?

The Multi-Cloud is fast gaining traction among the enterprises and the analyst firm Gartner has been talking about how different organizations are embracing more than one public cloud provider. Serverless is fast gaining traction among the developers as the right abstraction. The abstraction offered...

11/09/2021

Serverless will help change your team culture says Archis Gore, CTO, Polyverse Corporation

Serverless is the buzzword of our day and everyone has a different take on what it means. Some consider it a philosophy or mindset, others think it is about scaling-to-zero, and some believe it is merely hype around Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS). I’ve been a serverless user and advocate since befo...

08/30/2021

Serverless computing is gaining tremendous traction among developers, mainly aided by the ease with which they can deploy their code to production. The agility factor and the fine-grained cost model have made serverless computing attractive to many developers. Serverless is an abstraction that completely removes the complexities associated with managing the servers and middleware layers needed to deploy the application code....

Serverless computing is gaining tremendous traction among developers, mainly aided by the ease with which they can deploy their code to production. The agility factor and the fine-grained cost model have made serverless computing attractive to many developers. Serverless is an abstraction that compl...

12/19/2020

Serverless is about accountability says Archis Gore, CTO of Polyverse, a cybersecurity firm in this episode of Serverless Fridays

In this episode of Serverless Fridays, Archis Gore, CTO of Polyverse, talks about how Serverless brings in accountability in the team. He also explains how d...

12/16/2020

We are going live on the Modern Enterprise Tech Show. You can watch it live at http://rishidot.live. Feel free to add your comments or ask questions.

12/10/2020

We were on The Business of Cloud Native podcast recently

In episode 29 of The Business of Cloud Native, I talked to Krishnan Subramanian of Rishidot Research about trends he sees in how end users use cloud native technologies and how startups in the space can meet end users where they are.    Links:  https://rishidot.com

12/10/2020

One of the biggest complaints against Functions as a Service (FaaS) is the problem of a cold start. It is about the delay between the ex*****on of a function after someone invokes it. To be more specific, it is about the function at the time of invocation. In the background, many FaaS offerings use containers to encapsulate and execute the functions....

Most Serverless platforms have cold start issues, impacting the application performance and adding frction to developers

12/02/2020

Today at the re:invent conference, Amazon made some announcements regarding AWS Lambda. These announcements include: Increase in the resource limit for AWS Lambda up to 10 GB RAM and 5 vCPUs Support for container images to encapsulate functions Millisecond billing without any minimum ex*****on time The second announcement has created some confusion in the social media with many AWS users getting excited about the feature and many Google users comparing it to…...

Today at AWS re:invent conference, they announced new features for AWS Lambda that has caused confusion. This blog post clears the confusion