Google Cloud is a good choice for Cloud platforms. There are a lot of things they do well, they lead the market in AI and containers, in intense competition for the first place in data services. With that, I have some hopes that they will address their weaknesses during the upcoming Google Next conference. First, […]
Different Flavors Of Serverless Marketing
Yesterday, I wrote a post about retiring the term Serverless in favor of more specific terms like Functions Compute or FaaS, Data Services, etc.. As I expected, this was met with pushbacks on Twitter from people who are in the AWS camp (as in applying the term for services like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, etc.) […]
Serverless Will Grow At A Faster Rate Than The Cloud Did
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 […]
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 […]
Containers Are Not The Shiny Objects Anymore?
Containers, after Docker made the user experience seamless for developers, not only captivated developers and garnered their mindshare, it also made deployment of applications into production much more easy. It completely altered the developer workflow, pushing the CI tools into oblivion. When Kubernetes came into the market and made the deployment part of applications friction […]