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. In the first quarter of 2018, only 20 percent of these developers utilized an on-demand VM service, down from 46 percent in the third quarter of 2016. Meanwhile, 19 percent of backend developers have adopted serverless computing platforms. While that may seem high, it is actually a modest figure compared to serverless survey data we have previously reported.


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