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TriggerMesh Announces EveryBridge Serverless Event Bus
Recently TriggerMesh announced EveryBridge, an event bus that can consume events from various sources. These events are then used to start functions, which can run at any of the major cloud providers as well as on-premises.
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Change to AWS Lambda Networking Reduces Cold Start Time for VPC Customers
AWS announced changes to how Lambda functions connect to resources in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This change — using pre-created network interfaces instead of network interfaces created for each function execution environment — cuts out a major factor in "cold starts" for serverless functions.
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Lightbend Release CloudState, Providing a Spec for Managing "Serverless" State and a RI with Knative
Lightbend has recently announced CloudState. CloudState is the first open source serverless framework designed to bring stateful management on Knative/Kubernetes stack.
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AWS Step Functions Gains Callback Patterns to Resume Paused Workflows
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that AWS Step Functions supports callback patterns to "automate workflows for applications with human activities and custom integrations with third-party services". Workflow executions can now be paused until applications return a token via the Step Functions API, which obsoletes the previously required polling or other workarounds.
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Characteristics of Serverless Architecture
Too much of the current literature dealing with serverless architecture is driven by cloud providers and focuses only on the benefits, Wisen Tanasa writes in a recent blog post. When a new technology emerges, it's important to understand the implications of adopting it, and Tanasa therefore tries to give a better, more objective understanding of the traits of serverless architecture.
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Going from Microservices to Serverless: Phil Calçado at QCon New York
At several points throuhgout his career, Phil Calçado, who has experience working with SoundCloud, Meetup and SeatGeek, has worked on transitioning monoliths to a microservices architecture. Recently, the challenge has instead been migrating to serverless. In a presentation at the recent QCon New York conference, he talked about his experience combining the serverless concept with microservices.
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Amazon Releases Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Aurora Serverless.
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Akamai IoT Edge Connect Brings MQTT to its Serverless Edge Platform
Akamai IoT Edge Connect, part of Akamai Edge Cloud, provides a fully managed service for the operation of IoT devices with auto-scaling, failover, and data synchronization. InfoQ has spoken with Lior Netzer, vice-president and CTO of IoT at Akamai Technologies.
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Cloudflare Adopts Official CLI, Announces 3rd-Level Custom Domain Names, and Introduces a Free Tier
Cloudflare announces Wrangler as the official CLI for Cloudflare Workers, the ability to deploy without bringing your own domain, and a free tier that allows anyone to deploy globally on Cloudflare’s infrastructure.
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Cloudflare Releases Workers KV, a Serverless Key-Value Store at the Edge
What sits between your application and the client's browser? When the answer is "the internet", Cloudflare wants their Workers platform to play a part. They recently expanded that platform with Workers KV, a distributed, eventually-consistent key-value store available in 180+ edge locations.
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Nimbus: New Framework for Building Java Serverless Applications
The Nimbus framework is a Java framework that aims to ease the development, testing, and deployment of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) applications in the cloud by providing a cloud-agnostic, common interface for interacting with cloud providers’ serverless functionality.
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In a Serverless World, We Still Need State
Today there is a large push in enterprise architecture towards serverless architecture. Jonas Bonér argues that although he strongly believes in the serverless movement, the programming model should not focus only on stateless functions. We must also have a focus on state, allowing us to benefit from the advantages of serverless while building distributed general-purpose applications.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of SignalR Service Bindings in Azure Functions
Microsoft has announced the general availability of SignalR Service bindings in Azure Functions, which provides the ability to push messages and content updates in real-time to connected clients. Moreover, this would start through the various triggers of Azure Functions, including services such as Cosmos DB and Service Bus.
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Running Serverless Containers on Google Cloud Run
Google Cloud Run, now available in beta, allows you to run serverless applications based on Docker containers that are automatically activated when an HTTP request comes in. Google Cloud Run is a fully managed platform and is based on KNative, which allows you to easily port your applications to any other platforms using Kubernetes clusters.
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Deploying Rust-Generated WASM on Cloudflare Serverless Workers
Recently open-sourced by Cloudfare, Wrangler is a set of CLI tools to build, preview, and publish Cloudfare Workers written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly.