Also see: Serverless computing’s second act. Serverless databases. One quirk of working with serverless code is that has no persistent state, which means the values of local variables don’t ...

We’ve got your back(end) Twilio is aiming to extol the virtues of serverless with its latest product release. Twilio Functions is a serverless environment to build and run communications ...

Scalability: In a serverless environment, the ability to scale an application to meet user demand is handled by the platform hosting the code. If an application has 10,000 or 10 million users, it ...

The Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back report cites PyWren as an example that provides a platform for running existing Python code "at massive scale" via AWS Lambda, using AWS ...

Being serverless, however, it does not need to be running all the time, unlike a traditional database server How that request is routed at the back end is the responsibility of the FaaS provider ...

Serverless Computing Requires Less Manpower. Another benefit of serverless is that it requires less manpower to manage the system. “The effort to manage a serverless system in a NoOps environment ...

Aparna Sinha, lead product manager, Google, discusses serverless computing at the 2018 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) When you look back at decades of computing ...

One of the hottest trends of 2017, serverless computing, or functions as a service, is “about writing logic without thinking about the plumbing underneath,” Arimura, the founding CEO of Iron ...

Serverless applications consist of application front-end code, back-end functions, third-party services (e.g., Twilio, Algolia), and configuration of those functions and services.

Societe Generale has built a serverless-code environment internally to allow non-developers within the bank to code simple solutions. The coding environment functions similarly to Amazon Web Services’ ...