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Xata is a database service for serverless apps

TechCrunch

The company runs your database for you and turns it into an API so that you can query and update it from your serverless app. When you commit code changes, serverless platforms take care of deploying your application. Xata is focusing on databases and want to make it easier to integrate a database with your serverless app.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. You want to run things in the same cloud provider 9 and in the same data center 10. Databases, running code, you name it.

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Stream Processing in the Serverless World

Dzone - DevOps

Businesses generate data constantly. Stream processing in the serverless cloud solves this. Gartner predicts that by 2025, over 75% of enterprise data will be processed outside traditional data centers. Confluent states that stream processing lets companies act on data as it's created.

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Edge computing startup Macrometa gets $20M Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners

TechCrunch

Macrometa also made its self-service platform available to developers, who can try its serverless database, pub/sug, event processing and stateful compute runtime for free. Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, the next evolution of its serverless platform.

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Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist

Erik Bernhardsson

Truly serverless. Serverless doesn't mean it's a burstable VM that saves its instance state to disk during periods of idle. I'm dreaming of a world where things are truly serverless. I have a lot of hope here that natural selection will favor the products that are easy to get started and fun to use. Can't wait.

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DevOps Chat: Serverless and Abstraction with Nimbella’s Anshu Agarwal

DevOps.com

Nimbella is a serverless platform that is cloud-agnostic and makes developing and deploying applications easy. Whether in a public cloud, private data center or both, […]. The post DevOps Chat: Serverless and Abstraction with Nimbella’s Anshu Agarwal appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Ngrok, a service to help devs deploy sites, services and apps, raises $50M

TechCrunch

An open source package that grew into a distributed platform, Ngrok aims to collapse various networking technologies into a unified layer, letting developers deliver apps the same way regardless of whether they’re deployed to the public cloud, serverless platforms, their own data center or internet of things devices.

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