Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Transforming Information Into Knowledge
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 […]
54 percent of FaaS users without production deployments say their organization does not utilize a serverless architecture.
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.
AWS-branded technologies continue to perform well versus generic open source offerings.
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).
Compared to its last year’s survey, the Serverless Inc. 2018 study found that respondents using serverless at work rose from 45 percent in 2017 to 82 percent in 2018.
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.
In the first quarter of 2018, only 20 percent of backend developers surveyed by SlashData utilized an on-demand VM service, down from 46 percent in the third quarter of 2016.
Public cloud providers will continue to lead, but the market will support organizations that maintain their own private clouds or on-premises data centers, running applications to whatever is the best execution environment for a given workload.
Amazon Web Services’ Lambda remains the serverless leader, but competitors have a gleam of hope in their eyes.
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.