Topic: serverless
MongoDB looks beyond databases
MongoDB is looking to expand itself beyond databases and transform into a data platform company. The company made a number of data-focused announcements as well as serverless and security features at its MongoDB World conference this week in New York. MongoDB announced beta versions of Atlas Data Lake, Atlas Full-Text Search and the general availability … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Cloudflare Workers, Google expands Coral, and Microsoft AI business courses for government agencies
Cloudflare Workers adds new features in an effort to bring developers to build their apps on the serverless platform. The new features include a CLI, new and improved docs, multiple scripts for all, the ability to run applications on workers.dev without bringing your own domain, and a free tier to experiment. “We want Workers to … continue reading
Serverless moves the responsibility of performance monitoring to developers
Serverless computing puts more power in the hands of the developer. Rather than developing an application and sending it off to IT for deployment, developers can deploy a serverless application themselves, without having to wait on IT operations or their fellow developers. But serverless as a term can be kind of vague. When people refer … continue reading
A NoOps state of mind
The emergence of serverless computing is causing organizations to revisit the notion of NoOps for their development processes. Serverless enables businesses to achieve velocity without having to worry about operations. NoOps is the idea that if organizations can take operations out of the equation entirely, they can focus more on the development side of things. … continue reading
Twistlock goes beyond container security
Twistlock has announced the latest release of its cloud-native security platform. Twistlock 19.03 is designed to expand the company’s security capabilities to hosts, containers and serverless solutions. “Our approach is different because we’re not repacking legacy technologies or focusing on only a single aspect of host defense. Instead, Twistlock provides vulnerability management, compliance, runtime defense, … continue reading
Google releases serverless NoSQL document database
Google Cloud is on the path towards a serverless future with the general availability release of its serverless NoSQL document database solution Cloud Firestore. The solution leverages cloud-native technologies to provide the ability for users to store, sync and query data for their web, mobile and IoT apps. Features include live synchronization, offline support and … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Protego’s DVSA, QuickLogic acquires AI company, and IoT interoperability
Serverless security solution provider Protego Labs has announced a new open-source tool designed to help developers better understand how to secure and protect their serverless applications. The Damn Vulnerable Serverless Application (DVSA) is a vulnerable app meant to test the skills and tools of security professionals in a legal environment. According to the company, it … continue reading
GitLab partners with TriggerMesh to deliver GitLab Serverless
GitLab is bringing serverless capabilities to its DevOps solution with the release of GitLab Serverless. This new solution was delivered in partnership with the multi-cloud serverless management platform provider TriggerMesh. “The TriggerMesh founders have deep expertise in serverless. Sebastien Goasguen has been at the forefront of the technology since the very beginning. We found … continue reading
Microsoft Connect(); 2018 tackles developer tools, open source and serverless
Microsoft wants to give developers the ability to do more with new tools and features announced at its Microsoft Connect(); 2018 conference today. The company went over new developer tools, open-source projects and serverless computing capabilities. “As we share our new innovations for every developer at Connect(); 2018 today, I’m reminded that now, more than … continue reading
Amazon goes deeper with serverless
Amazon is bolstering its serverless solution AWS Lambda with new serverless development features. The company announced Lambda Layers and Lambda Runtime API at its re:Invent conference this week. Lambda Layers is a new feature for managing code and data across multiple functions. According to Amazon, it’s very common to have code shared across functions whether … continue reading
Datadog introduces enhanced monitoring for serverless apps in AWS
Datadog is introducing new end-to-end monitoring capabilities for AWS Lambda with the release of a new integration with AWS X-Ray, a distributed tracing solution that helps developers analyze and debug apps in production. According to the company, while serverless functions have many benefits, they introduce complexity in application performance monitoring. Because AWS Lambda runs on … continue reading
premium OWASP Top 10 comes to serverless
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is releasing a Top 10 interpretation for web application security risks in serverless. Serverless has been gaining a lot of attention as of late because of its ability to eliminate operations and improve speed, costs, and scalability for businesses. However, serverless is a new paradigm and with it … continue reading
