Leveraging Serverless for Micro-Frontends: A Look Back, A Look Ahead Building large-scale web applications can be a complex endeavor. Traditionally, monolithic architectures presented challenges in terms of scalability, maintainability, and team agility. Distributed architectures, like microservices, have offered solutions, but what about the frontend? Enter micro-frontends, a revolutionary approach to building UIs that mirrors the benefits of microservices. This concept has been gaining traction since 2016, and at the Serverless Architecture Conference last year in London, Luca Mezzalira pre ..read more

GraalVM is a high-performance runtime environment that can drastically reduce the startup times and memory requirements of applications using native images. Both factors are essential for short-lived and fast-scaling serverless functions. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how GraalVM Native Images work in the context of AWS Lambda Functions.{.preface} We will also learn the difference between managed AWS Lambda runtimes such as Java 17 and the custom runtimes required for GraalVM, as well as what additional tools, configurations and libraries need to be integrated into the developme ..read more

Designing an Asynchronous World with Event Driven Architecture High availability, scalability, cost optimization, configuration instead of code, and minimal infrastructure management. This is how you can summarize AWS’ serverless concept. It isn’t new and many know and use it. But new products and enhancements to some familiar services, especially with regard to event-driven architectures, are shedding a new light on the subject and giving rise to the term “the new serverless”. This article will examine what this means and how it can be implemented in practice. The world is asynchronous At the ..read more

Understanding Serverless The term serverless encompasses technologies for running code, managing data, and integrating applications without managing any servers. Typically, serverless services adjust to demand automatically, without the need to manually increase or decrease the amount of provisioned resources. At the same time, the pay-for-use billing model means costs are aligned with actual demand, so you pay for value, not for unused capacity or idle resources. Infrastructure management tasks, such as server and operating system maintenance, security isolation, high availability ..read more

A picture is worth a thousand words – and when talking about the differences between established large companies and start-ups, the image of sluggish supertankers and agile, small speedboats regularly comes up. So far, so good. But if you look at the reality, you see that most start-ups are indeed small boats, but the question of manoeuvrability and speed remains partly unanswered. The real will to launch a first product as quickly as possible is often missing. One of the reasons could be that although many young companies come up with fresh product and service ideas, they often have little ex ..read more

Lambda is a serverless compute platform first made available to customers in 2014. Since then, it has grown to have over 1 million active customers, and more than 10 trillion requests a month. Lambda allows you to run code without provisioning or managing any servers or infrastructure. You only pay for Lambda when your code is executing, and you don’t pay for it when it’s not in use. When traffic to your application increase, Lambda will automatically scale to meet the demand, and availability and fault tolerance is built in. STAY TUNED! Learn more about Serverless Architecture Conferenc ..read more

Azure Cloud Functions are ideal whenever the programme task they represent is initiated by a trigger. In this article, we take a closer look at these functions. To understand the role of Azure Cloud Functions, let’s first look at the structure in Figure 1.     Fig. 1: The Azure Function is called by a trigger The storage of the calculation operations triggered in response to the event is usually done using the various persistence options provided by Azure. In theory, it would of course also be possible to call an external service via REST, for example, and to persist there via side ..read more

Where it all began   Application development is an exciting field that has seen many trends in recent years. While we used to develop and compile native applications, the web application trend has gained traction in the enterprise sector over the years. Above all, constant accessibility, automatic updates, and multi-user capabilities were unquestionably important in this case. However, the times have changed for web applications.   In the past, it was sufficient for a web application to be “web-capable,” which meant that the server could output HTML and interpret form data.   Ho ..read more

In the previous article about SaaS operations at the customer site, we looked at Amazon ECS Anywhere, a platform that allows external hardware to be added to a control plane fully managed in the Cloud. We saw that software vendors and their customers can greatly reduce operational overhead in on-premises deployment using ECS Anywhere and can standardize their delivery and operational concepts across environments. If a team is considering deploying an application with containers, ECS isn’t the only option. Kubernetes is likely to be included in the shortlist of platforms in most cases. 88% of a ..read more

Serverless, as related to compute, has been extensively covered. We know that impacting the developer experience of creating functions and managing the lifecycle can make or break an approach. The tooling experience for serverless is getting better but still not perfect. Still, I feel we understand well and recognize that work is required to create a seamless experience for the developer creating, deploying, testing, and maintaining functions. STAY TUNED! Learn more about Serverless Architecture Conference Leave this field empty if you're human: Serverless data is an entirely different kett ..read more