It takes few minutes to setup a Cloud instance and start using it. This is always far faster and easier than provisioning your own hardware. If you look at this as a function of value vs. effort, it may look something like this. It provides limited value for limited effort. All you are getting is […]
Should CNCF Set The Standards For Serverless?
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has been active in setting up a working group for Serverless in order to define the standards. The working group has been active in defining a level of abstraction that could both be complementary and competitive to what CNCF represents. This is also an insurance policy against Serverless driving adoption […]
Serverless On-Premises: Does It Make Sense?
There is quite a bit of chatter around deploying Serverless platforms on-premises either on their traditional virtualized infrastructure or private cloud. Does Serverless on servers in your own data center make any sense? Does it defeat the very idea of Serverless? In this post, we will take a look Serverless from the point of view […]
The Maturity of Functions as a Service
Functions as a Service (FaaS) has been gaining quite a bit of traction among developers and startups. In our conversations with enterprise decision makers, we see that there is some level of FaaS adoption, in varying stages of maturity, in their organizations. We are in the process of publishing an independent research report next month […]