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DigitalOcean enhances serverless capabilities with Nimbella acquisition

TechCrunch

As developers look for ways to simplify how they create software, serverless solutions, which enable them to write code without worrying about the underlying infrastructure required to run their applications, is becoming increasingly popular. Spruill said that this wasn’t the company’s first foray into serverless.

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Upstash snags $1.9M seed to build serverless data platform for Redis and Kafka

TechCrunch

That’s where serverless plays best — you only pay for the resources when you’re using them, not when they’re sitting idle. Serverless doesn’t mean there are no servers. The serverless provider delivers exactly the amount of resources and no more (at least that’s the theory).

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Koyeb raises $1.6 million for its serverless data-processing engine

TechCrunch

It hides many complexities using a serverless model. Koyeb believes that companies will take advantage of the best cloud-native APIs and storage services going forward. In order to mix-and-match those various providers, Koyeb provides the serverless glue that ties everything together. French startup Koyeb has raised a $1.6

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Neon nabs $30M to build a scalable cloud service for Postgres databases

TechCrunch

Neon , a startup providing developers with a serverless option for Postgres databases, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A-1 round led by GGV with participation from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund and angel investors. Many developers opt for a fully managed platform.

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Rotating secrets with serverless

Xebia

In this article we are going to explore how we can use a serverless approach to automate the secret rotation process, avoiding having to ever endure one of these arduous events again! In order to translate this into our serverless function we will need to do this process via code.

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Why Object Storage is Best for Cloud-Native Apps

DevOps.com

A crucial question that plagues cloud application developers is, “What kind of storage should we use for our app?” Unlike other choices like compute runtimes—Lambda/serverless, containers or virtual machines—data storage choice is highly sticky and makes future application improvements and migrations much harder.

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Leveraging Serverless and Generative AI for Image Captioning on GCP

Xebia

Leveraging Serverless and Generative AI for Image Captioning on GCP In today’s age of abundant data, especially visual data, it’s imperative to understand and categorize images efficiently. TL;DR We’ve built an automated, serverless system on Google Cloud Platform where: Users upload images to a Google Cloud Storage Bucket.