Today, more and more of our data management systems are moving to the cloud. The cloud offers access from anywhere in the world, making it invaluable in the remote working world of the past two years. In the mindset of the cloud revolution, more and more businesses are making the switch to serverless computing. If you are dealing with that decision, many helpful services, such as Akka Serverless … [Read more...]

Few serverless database services have emerged in the last few years. These systems are different than traditional RDBMS and traditional database as a service model from the point of billing. First, they eliminate the need for provision on a database on a server, second, their billing is usage dependent. The traditional database as a service model has fixed pricing. As their billing system is not … [Read more...]

One of the most discussed topic of recent time is serverless. Like many trends in software engineering and web services, serverless is still confusing to many of the potential customers. We believe that we have clarified what is serverless, what is FaaS, what are the differences between serverless and FaaS, why serverless is different from the other cloud services. On a serverless platform, the … [Read more...]

Normally, with the phrase cloud computing we mean the style of on-demand delivery of compute power, applications, and other IT resources with pay-as-you-go pricing. Traditionally, we had three type of cloud computing service models - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). There are hundreds of other "as a service" but most of them either … [Read more...]

Since IBM, Amazon Web Services (AWS) etc companies are offering their function-as-a-service (FaaS) offering, more number of users are becoming interested towards serverless. While it is true that serverless computing is the next step in the evolution of cloud computing, we have to remember that serverless, FaaS are for helping the traditional static websites, not the dynamic websites like a large … [Read more...]

Despite Serverless has problems and challenges at present, in many use cases, Serverless actually used at the backend. Lack of standards, tooling and vendor lock-in are problems and risks for those who are not the cloud service providers. Rather the mass consumers. However, the cloud service providers of IBM, Microsoft, HP sized use serverless for delivering their services. We simply do not know … [Read more...]

This article is mostly for providing the idea of how in the last 10 years we are progressing to host small websites on free to cheaper cloud storage. Many readers are Most of the peoples with some work over the internet are used with Jekyll and OctoPress. They are static site generator and also management tool. So far, we could host our static websites on various platforms including Object … [Read more...]

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...]