Amazon Web Services emerges as the far-and-away front-runner in this space, cited by 72% of the total sample as their public cloud computing choice. Microsoft Azure follows at 18%, and Google Cloud ...

My clients have started asking questions about a new industry catch phrase that they’ve started to hear coming from suppliers of cloud-based computing services. The phrase is “serverless” computing.

Serverless computing is a popular approach for cloud-based applications, but it's not the best fit in every case. Too often serverless fails to deliver business value. A recent report published by ...

Kevin Macwan is a Software Development Manager for Amazon, with 9+ years of experience in building distributed cloud platform services. Serverless architecture is no longer the future of computing—it ...

From AWS Lambda and Azure Functions to Knative and OpenFaaS, we have at least a dozen functions-as-a-service platforms to choose from. Here’s how to navigate the options. Running a server farm in the ...

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Serverless computing, or function-as-a-service (FaaS), is a new cloud paradigm gaining significant momentum in the developer world. At a high-level, serverless computing gives developers the ability ...

More and more organizations are turning to serverless computing — and with good reason. If you’re considering serverless computing solutions, these are the top tools. Wikipedia describes serverless ...

Is there really such a thing as "serverless computing"? Of course not -- there's always a server somewhere in the mix. But there is a growing movement toward pushing all the backend requirements ...

Microsoft announced Azure Functions 3.0, its event-driven, serverless cloud computing runtime, has reached version 3.0, ready for production -- with a catch. The catch is that while the go-live, ...