Azure Container Instances bring serverless computing to containers

Enlarge (credit: Ana Ulin) Azure Container Instances (ACI), which let you create Linux and Windows containers without having to manage the virtual machines they run on, are now generally available. ACI brings serverless principles to containerized applications. Serverless computing, pioneered by Amazon’s Lambda and found on Azure as Functions, is designed to defer all system […]

AWS’ Serverless Application Repository compounds its early advantage

Amazon Web Services gave its customers an easier way to get started with serverless applications today. The cloud provider launched its Serverless Application Repository out of beta to give customers an app store for trying out different applications built using Lambda, its event-driven computing service. AWS made a major splash when it announced Lambda at its re:Invent […]

AWS Lambda gets Go support and a tool for sharing serverless apps

Amazon Web Services has been at the forefront of a new cloud application development model since it launched its Lambda service in 2014. That service offers developers a “serverless” environment where they can write code that runs in response to outside events. Today, it got more powerful with a series of updates announced at the […]

What I learned about building serverless apps

GUEST: The term “serverless architecture” is a recent addition to the technology lexicon, coming into common use following the launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda in 2014. The term is both paradoxical and provocative: In fact, there really are servers backing “serverless” technology, but the term illustrates one of IT’s biggest headaches, server administration. […]