2020
Adoption of AWS Lambda Serverless Stalls
As the number of cloud native organizations continues to grow, they are slightly less likely to include AWS Lambda in their plans. This does not mean Lambda spending is stalling. The number of applications the number and scale of applications using it are increasing significantly, but this is happening most often at companies that have already started on the serverless journey.
Serverless Needs More Observability Tools
Debugging and monitoring continue to be the top serverless pain points. New design patterns and an increasing number of functions being managed are all related to these concerns.
Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software
Knative is adopted by 17% of respondents that use a hosted platform or installable software for serverless. Kubeless, Apache OpenWhisk, Oracle’s Fn, and Fission all saw sharp drop-offs in adoption and community activity.
Solving Serverless and Tracing Is Key to Success in Observability
Serverless was named ahead of service meshes, containers and orchestrators as an obstacle to achieving observability.
2019
FaaS Selection Criteria: Little Desire for Multicloud
Easy, fast development is what people want from a Function as a Service (FaaS).
2018
Serverless vs. Kubernetes vs. Containers
Has “serverless” surpassed containers? Containers have the edge according. Overall, 53% of respondents in our survey would prefer containers as the platform to standardize how their organization abstracts IT infrastructure, with 33 percent choosing functions and 10 percent opting for virtual machines.
Serverless Roadmaps: Monitoring, Security, Frameworks, Tools
The platforms that run serverless workloads are just one aspect of a larger ecosystem of tools to manage and monitor applications throughout the software development lifecycle. This article uses survey data to show which tools are seeing adoption by those using serverless architectures.
Serverless Roadmap: Hosted and Installable Platforms
The leading hosted platforms are the big three cloud providers’ FaaS offerings. In other words, the battle for the next wave of serverless adoption is alive and well.
Business Logic Is a Leading Technical Use Case for Serverless
REST APIs, batch jobs and scheduled tasks, and business logic are the most common use cases for serverless architecture, according to 278 real serverless adopters surveyed by The New Stack.
FaaS ≠ Serverless
54% of FaaS users without production deployments say their organization does not utilize a serverless architecture.
Prepare for an Onslaught of Go Language Serverless Functions
Over a quarter of people with serverless architectures in use or in plan expect to write a function using the Go language (Golang) in the next 18 months.
Docker and Lambda on Par in AWS Environments
AWS-branded technologies continue to perform well versus generic open source offerings.
Container Deployment Still Outpaces ‘Serverless’
Containers are being used or actively evaluated by 32% of respondents, compared to 19 percent for serverless computing and 14% for FaaS (function as a service).
Serverless Moves from Beta to Business Use
Compared to its last year’s survey, the Serverless Inc. 2018 study found that respondents using serverless at work rose from 45% in 2017 to 82% in 2018.
Did AWS Lambda Win Serverless?
It is indisputable that AWS is the public cloud leader…we are more interested in the percentage of workloads that will use FaaS, as well as whether serverless compute will be provided on-premises.
Serverless Now Rivals VMs Delivered as a Service
Remember when cloud computing meant paying to spin up a virtual machine (VM) instance? Use of VM infrastructure as a service (IaaS) has consistently dropped among backend developers according to surveys conducted by SlashData.
On-Prem Orgs Trail Cloud Counterparts in Tech Adoption
That survey was composed of 23% of participants who worked at organizations that only used public cloud data centers, and 13% only used on-premises data centers. While 29% of the sample are using serverless technologies, only 12% of the on-premises only organizations do.
2017
AWS Lambda Still Towers Over the Competition, but for How Much Longer?
Only 23% of serverless platform users work at an organization that have not adopted AWS Lambda.
Serverless Adoption on Par with Containers
At least superficially, adoption of serverless technologies now matches that of containers. However, the depth of its use in production applications has yet to be determined.
2016
TNS Guide to Serverless Technologies: The Best Frameworks, Platforms and Tools
Even if you don’t need the servers themselves, serverless technologies could still require plenty of supporting software.
TNS Guide to Serverless Technologies: The Best of FaaS and BaaS
FaaS provides a computational muscle to carry out a function designed by the user, requiring little more than the code itself, which the service can execute when triggered. FaaS is increasingly used for real-time data processing.
Serverless and Distributed Database Services are Besties Now
API tooling (for both gateways and generation) links FaaS abilities with backend services like identification/authentication and data streaming that connect with existing databases.
