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Using Serverless Backends to Iterate Quickly on Web Apps
In a series of three technical articles, AWS has recently shown the advantage of building serverless backends to iterate quickly on web apps and be able to follow changing product requirements. These development methodology and architecture allow flexibility but increase coupling with cloud vendor services.
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Operating Microservices & Securing Serverless: InfoQ Live, 25th August
InfoQ Live, the virtual event where experts interact with the audience to share their experience and learning in relation to running microservices and serverless systems, is just a few days away. Attend in order to learn best practices for working with modular architectures and leave with peer-validated ideas that you can implement right away in your team and organization.
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InfoQ Live Virtual Event on Aug 25th: Session Spotlights and Roundtables
The inaugural InfoQ Live (Aug 25th) is a one-day virtual learning event that deep-dives into building and operating microservices and distributed systems. Discover practical strategies for the current environment that you can put into use straight away. Join world-class practitioners for inspiration, connections, and actionable ideas. See the InfoQ Live full schedule and the speaker line-up.
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Micronaut 2.0 Enhances Tooling, Improves Support for Serverless and GraalVM
Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) has formally released Micronaut 2.0, a major release of the full-stack JVM-based framework that helps create microservices-based, cloud-native and serverless applications utilizing languages such as Java, Groovy, and Kotlin.
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AWS Serverless Application Model Supports Step Functions State Machines
The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) recently gained support for AWS Step Functions state machines. The new AWS::Serverless::StateMachine resource type enables developers to define state machines within a SAM template or in a separate file so that they can provision workflow orchestration as an integrated part of serverless applications.
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The AWS Serverless LAMP Stack: the Future of PHP or Vendor Lock-in?
In a series of three technical articles, AWS has recently introduced the new "Serverless LAMP stack". But not everyone in the open-source community believes that the successor of the LAMP stack is proprietary technologies from a single vendor, and alternative approaches have been suggested.
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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon RDS Proxy
Amazon RDS Proxy is a new fully managed, highly available database proxy for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases running on Amazon RDS and Aurora. The service is tailored to serverless architectures and other applications that open and close database connections at a high rate.
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Serverless Days 2020 Looks at Future of Serverless Architecture
In a Serverless Days online event on June 18, leaders from the cloud computing industry, including experts from UC Berkeley, serverless.com, TencentCloud and Google Cloud, came together to discuss serverless computing’s latest innovations, use cases, and future directions.
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Kubernetes Usage Expanding in Large and Small Companies, CNCF Survey Shows
Survey results from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed accelerating adoption of Kubernetes and containers, especially in production environments. This echoed the findings from the new, enterprise-focused, State of Kubernetes 2020 report from VMware.
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How Serverless Impacts Design: Gojko Adzic at DDD Europe
Serverless architectures are becoming mainstream and can reduce both time to market and operational costs. But to benefit from them, applications must be designed around the constraints of this architecture style. At the recent DDD Europe 2020 conference, Gojko Adzic discussed his experience using serverless and how DDD and a serverless architecture will impact the design of an application.
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James Ward and Ray Tsang on Knative Serverless Platform
At this year's QCon San Francisco 2019 Conference, James Ward and Ryan Knight hosted a workshop on Serverless technologies using the Knative framework. InfoQ caught up with speakers to discuss the role of serverless in developing cloud native applications.
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Atlassian Introduces Forge, a New Way to Build Serverless Cloud Apps
In a recent blog post, Atlassian announced a new serverless cloud platform called Forge that allows developers to build Functions-as-a Service (FaaS)-based applications that are hosted and operated by Atlassian. Forge UI, a flexible and declarative UIL language, will be used by developers to build interactive experiences across web and mobile devices using a low-code approach.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2019
Last week in Las Vegas, AWS held their annual re:Invent conference and unveiled a slew of new products, while updating many existing ones. Here's a review of announcements impacting compute, data and storage, app integration, networking, machine learning, identity management, enterprise services, and development.
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Oracle Expands Cloud Native Services, Adds Kafka Streaming, API Gateway and Logging Support
In a recent blog post, Oracle announced the limited availability of three news service offerings in its Oracle Cloud Native Services platform. The three new services include Kafka Compatibility for Oracle Streaming, an API Gateway for managing connectivity to serverless components and containers and a Logging service that supports log management and analytics across resources and applications.
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Ahead of re:Invent, Amazon Updates AWS Lambda
A series of updates to AWS Lambda aim to improve how the function-as-a-service platform handles asynchronous workflows and processes data streams. These newly announced features arrived the week before the annual mega-conference, AWS re:Invent.