For serverless monitoring, we found that cloud provider’s own tools were commonly used to monitor apps, with Amazon CloudWatch used by 88% of respondents with live AWS Lambda implementations.
The leading hosted platforms are the big three cloud providers’ FaaS offerings. AWS Lambda has twice as many users as Azure Functions and more than three times as many as Google Cloud Functions.
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. Many of these web applications have written-in logic that executes events such as sending an email […]
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.
Nine out of 10 components in the average application are open source, according to an analysis of 1,700 apps in Sonatype’s “State of the Software Supply Chain.” However, a survey of people familiar with application security by ESG provides a lower figure — only 43% believe that more than half of their enterprise’s codebase of open source.
Containers are being used or actively evaluated by 32 percent of respondents, compared to 19 percent for serverless computing and 14 percent for FaaS (function as a service).
AWS is widely used by cloud-native practitioners. We expect that as serverless expands and deepens that enterprises will continue to utilize multiple clouds, with AWS usually being part of the mix.