Tag: serverless
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How Fidelity’s “chaos buffet” pushed AWS to new Lambda tools – “Fidelity has over 7,700 applications (75% of its estate) in the public cloud. Among these are its trade order management system, which relies heavily on Lambda’s serverless, event-driven compute service.”
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Link: Comic Relief switched from multi-cloud to serverless with AWS and saw a 93% cost reduction
As a team, going serverless has given us a lot more velocity, we can rapidly release, we can test the same infrastructure we’re deploying in production, in a pull request environment, in a staging environment, we can rapidly retest ideas- and every developer can do that because we’re using Lambda to load test, so the…
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🗂 Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications
It either means not having to worry about managing your middleware stack and/or a trigger-driven event system. m.subbu.org/contempor…
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Link: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless
Despite attempts to educate the market, we still believe the word “serverless” connotes many different things, especially for the 79 percent of organizations that plan to adopt serverless architecture but have not planned to use FaaS in the next 18 months. Oh boy. Original source: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless
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Link: What Will Be the Real Impact From Knative?
“Knative is using the market momentum behind Kubernetes to provide an established platform on which to support serverless deployments that can run across different public clouds.” Original source: What Will Be the Real Impact From Knative?
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Link: Serverless survey
“Serverless is growing, and fast. Several key adoption metrics are 2x what they were last year. And not just with smaller companies; the enterprise is adopting serverless technologies for critical workloads just as rapidly.” Original source: Serverless survey
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Link: Knative Enables Portable Serverless Platforms on Kubernetes, for Any Cloud
“Knative is an open source software layer that helps cloud service providers and enterprise platform operators deliver a serverless experience to developers on any cloud.” Original source: Knative Enables Portable Serverless Platforms on Kubernetes, for Any Cloud
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Link: Containers and serverless functions – a modern architecture needs both and more
“While it’s unclear whether cost savings are the primary motivation for PaaS adoption, 62 percent of IT leaders (presumably a subset that omits developers and operations people) cite saving at least $100,000 by using PaaS instead of traditional development techniques.” Also, summary of latest CFF survey and few other vendor sponsored surveys on PaaS, containers,…
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Link: Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture
‘Sharples said the main interest stems from an enterprise love of microservices, where incremental delivery, agility and faster delivery are being embraced. “But we see adopters struggle with the operational complexity of managing and monitoring distributed systems, and that is where serverless has gotten their attention. You get the microservices benefits, but from a developer…
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Link: Kubernetes won – so now what?
“Kubernetes has in fact already lost the war to serverless.” All the cool kids are leap-frogging their thurt leadership. Original source: Kubernetes won – so now what?
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Link: Serverless Architectures: A Paradigm Shift in …
“One of the biggest security upsides to developing on serverless architectures is that organizations don’t have to deal with the daunting task of having to constantly apply security patches for the underlying operating system. These tasks are now in the domain of the serverless architecture provider.” The rest – the application code – still needs…
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Link: Serverless at Bustle
‘Probably the biggest is: how do you deal with the migration of legacy things? At Bustle we ended up mostly re-architecting our entire platform around serverless, and so that’s one option, but certainly not available to everybody. But even then, the first time we launched a serverless service, we brought down all of our Redis…
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Link: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower
Automate all the DevOps. Original source: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower
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Link: Thoughts….
“Vendor lock-in is not the hardest thing to overcome, Architectural lock-in is harder to overcome. If you built your new app components today optimizing for constraints of a VM, you will have a harder time moving to future than migrating an app from AWS to GCP. For example, using Kubernetes for new workloads creates an…
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Link: The economics of serverless cloud computing
“direct expenditure on serverless can be cheaper than on VMs, but only where the number of times the code is executed is under about 500,000 executions per month” Link to original
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Link: Developers, developers, developers: How ‘serverless’ crowd dropped ops like it’s hot
“Serverless is all about giving developers the ability to execute code without requiring sysadmins.” Link



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