In our earlier discussions around Serverless, we talked around why some developers love Serverless. Serverless Computing does not solve any problem all at once. Let us go Serverless is towards a joke, in sense if the function is active all the time or demand is too much resources, traditional cloud server will be still cheaper. Current cost to run ordinary website (like, a less visited personal … [Read more...]
Run Serverless for Free : GitHub Pages & OpenWhisk/IBM Cloud
Many users fear to test serverless because of unknown cost. Serverless is just hacked form of hosting HTML pages on Cloud Storage or CDN. This is an introductory guide to give the idea how we can test serverless with GitHub pages, PHP functions with OpenWhisk. IBM Cloud Serverless uses the same OpenWhisk. IBM Cloud provides many services for free of cost for testing. As OpenWhisk is a Free … [Read more...]
Frameworks For Creating Serverless Apps
Unlike 10 years back, developing web applications and mobile applications no longer easy. There are too many things to maintain these days which made hand coding CSS quite difficult. Developing HTML pages with CSS, PHP, Flash, and JavaScript (aka FrontEnd development) changed too much. When JavaScript became a server-side language, most developers fall in love with the idea of using JS for every … [Read more...]
What is the Relationship Between Serverless Computing and Microservices?
Serverless Computing and Microservices are not exactly related unlike cloud computing and virtualization are related. It is of importantance not to confuse architecture and technologies but use the correct technology for the correct architecture. Microservices is a style of architecture style where we develop a set of multiple operation specific to a business logic. In that way, the total software … [Read more...]
Why Some Developers Love Serverless So Much?
Serverless is still new and there are a lot of developers who do not understand what is behind the name and ask questions like Serverless Functions vs Microservices. Serverless is a pricing model. Serverless introduces an additional abstraction layer. Cloud made many thing a lot simpler. A single developer can easily spin up a virtual machine withinf a few minutes. PaaS, Serverless are extending … [Read more...]
What Is a Serverless Microservice?
In our few previous publications, we discussed the commonly asked matters around serverless, FaaS, microservices such as Serverless Functions vs Microservices, Difference Between FaaS and Serverless etc. What Iis a Serverless Microservice? Serverless microservice is combination of both serverless and microservice. Serverless microservices run within vendor's serverless infrastructure only when … [Read more...]
Serverless Functions vs Microservices
Both the Serverless and Microservices reduce the time to market. Microservices is a technical term where as serverless has more a marketing term like the Cloud has when compared to virtualiation. Essentially, both Serverless and Microservices allow handling changing requirements with lesser effort which results lowering of the operation costs in the environments with larger load. Microservices are … [Read more...]
What is the Difference Between FaaS and Serverless?
One of our reader asked us why we have used Serverless and FaaS as interchangeable words in the article What Are the Real Use Cases of Serverless Architecture (FaaS)?. He is correct. Serverless and FaaS are not exactly the same. The main reason we used the terminiogies synonymously is that, the intended reader audience likely are begginers and need the basic concept, we think that confusing them … [Read more...]
What Are the Real Use Cases of Serverless Architecture (FaaS)?
In our an earlier article, we discussed about the limitations and disadvantages of the Serverless Architecture (FaaS). Now, what are the real use cases of Serverless Architecture (FaaS) which a developer should think to use it? A Serverless Architecture helps us by offloading the computational efforts on Cloud Web Services. The functionality, scalability, and security goes to the backend provider. … [Read more...]