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Can serverless fix fintech’s scaling problem?

CIO

With serverless components, there is no need to manage infrastructure, and the inbuilt tracing, logging, monitoring and debugging make it easy to run these workloads in production and maintain service levels. Financial services unique challenges However, it is important to understand that serverless architecture is not a silver bullet.

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Serverless Stack raises $1M for open-source application framework

TechCrunch

Open-source framework startup Serverless Stack announced Friday that it raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that includes Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Y Combinator. Serverless Stack’s technology enables engineers to more easily build full-stack serverless apps.

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Berlin’s Tilo raises seed round to tackle unstructured data sets with a serverless platform

TechCrunch

Now a new Berlin startup, which has tested its theories after being spun out from a larger corporate, is poised to tackle this thorny problem. Because it’s serverless, the costs scale with the usage, making it cheaper than server-based solutions. But it remains a big problem to solve.

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Streamlining Workflows with Feature Branches and Logical Stacks

Xebia

Feature branches and stack-based development approaches offer powerful ways to isolate changes, test effectively, and ensure seamless integration. When you are done, you can thoroughly test your changes before merging them into the main branch. By switching to serverless, you pay for the usage.

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Breaking AWS Lambda: Chaos Engineering for Serverless Devs

Dzone - DevOps

The Day Our Serverless Dream Turned into a Nightmare It was 3 PM on a Tuesday. Our "serverless" order processing system built on AWS Lambda and API Gateway was humming along, handling 1,000 transactions/minute. The post-mortem revealed the harsh truth: wed never tested failure scenarios. Then, disaster struck.

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Koyeb is a serverless platform that integrates with your GitHub repository

TechCrunch

The company is still focused on serverless infrastructure. But it now offers a general purpose serverless platform that you can configure through a simple “git push” command or by using Docker containers. It has already been tested by 10,000 developers during the private beta phase.

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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

CIO

CIOs and other executives identified familiar IT roles that will need to evolve to stay relevant, including traditional software development, network and database management, and application testing. In software development today, automated testing is already well established and accelerating.