Companies around the world and across many industries have felt the pressure to release faster, yet they struggle to do so in a safe and reliable way that doesn’t compromise user trust. A lot of these companies think there’s a dichotomy between whether you can move fast or increase value. “I think the move fast … continue reading
Lightbend has announced the launch of Akka Serverless, a cloud-native development platform-as-a-service that enables the creation of cloud-native apps using any programming language and eliminates the need for databases in deploying business-critical apps. Akka has a simple, API-driven programming model that makes it easy for developers to define the data that they need so that … continue reading
Serverless isn’t just a fad; it’s here to stay. According to Datadog’s State of Serverless 2021 report, AWS Lambda functions were invoked 3.5 times more often than they were in 2019. The company explained this is an indication that teams are making serverless a critical part of their software stacks, not just experimenting with it. … continue reading
The cybersecurity company Imperva launched Imperva Serverless Protection to secure organizations from vulnerabilities created by misconfigured apps and code-level security risks in serverless computing environments. Imperva Serverless protection is a fully integrated tool within AWS Lambda Extensions and can be deployed once and applied to multiple AWS Lambda functions. It also protects against the OWASP … continue reading
Lightrun announced the release of a free, self-service version of its debugging solution for developers. With Lightrun Cloud, users can troubleshoot production applications live from within the IntelliJ IDE and debug modern application architectures like containers, microservices and serverless. “Distributed frameworks are the cornerstone of the most interesting cloud-native development use cases today, but all … continue reading
CTO.ai wants to make it easier for developers to deploy and manage cloud native applications with the release of its new Serverless Kubernetes platform. According to the company, the solution enables development teams to consolidate all of their workflows on Kubernetes and deploy cloud-native apps instantly without worrying about operations. Users will have the ability … continue reading
Chaos engineering has been gaining a lot of traction over the last few years as it moved from its origins at Netflix to more and more companies across the industry. Many development teams use it to prevent downtime by trying to break their systems on purpose so that they can improve those systems before they … continue reading
Vercel has announced a $40 million round of funding to “help everyone build the next web.” Vercel is a cloud platform for static sites and serverless functions that focuses on helping front-end development. The round of funding was led by GV and included Greenoaks Capital, Bedrock Capital, Geodesic Capital, Accel Partners and CRV. The company … continue reading
Tidelift has announced a new integration with Sonatype’s OSS index data. The integration aims to provide open-source vulnerability identification and remediation capabilities for Tidelift customers. According to the company, the Sonatype OSS Index aggregates data from CVE entries, a growing list of public vulnerability sources, and community contributions. “In a recent Tidelift survey, 58% of … continue reading
Serverless computing is a next-generation technology that enables agility, elasticity and cost-effectiveness when applied to appropriate use cases. It is redefining the way enterprises build, consume and integrate cloud-native applications. However, the term “serverless computing” is a misnomer: The technology eliminates the need for infrastructure provisioning and management, but certainly does not eliminate the need … continue reading
The Ruby 3.0 preview 1 introduces new features and performance improvements such as the ‘rbs’ gem, which allows parsing and processing type definitions written in RBS. Additionally, the preview has a Ractor experimental feature, with which developers can make multiple tractors and run them in parallel. ‘Thread#scheduler’ is introduced for intercepting blocking operations. This allows … continue reading
Talend has updated its Talend Data Fabric platform with a focus on the Talend Trust Score. According to the company, the Talend Trust Score features new advanced capabilities toward assessing the reliability of an organization’s data. The solution intelligently diagnoses and resolves data integrity issues in multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments. The Trust Score exposes the … continue reading
