Serverless Inc has graduated from offering a “framework” to offering a fully-fledged “platform” as it snags $10m in funding.

In a blogpost, Serverless Inc  founder and CEO Austen Collins said that while the almost two year old framework “solves several problems in the build phase” the platform – which is in beta – “extends its focus to two other phases of serverless applications lifecycle management: operating and integrating.”

A vendor agnostic dashboard pledges to give architectural views of serverless applications, exposing logs for metrics, alarms and debugging, and of course enable better collaboration between developers. Developers are promised much clearer heads, with the dashboard promising to expose the functions, event subscriptions, resources and infrastructure underpinning each serverless application, and the relevant who, what and when of deployments.

The second element is a hosted version of the firm’s event gateway. Serverless Inc says the event gateway – or event router – allows users to “react to any event, from anywhere – any cloud provider or SaaS, containers and legacy infrastructure.” In his blog posting Collins claims to use the gateway to “trigger 11 different cloud providers”. Presumably in a good way.

This is all in beta right now, and you can check it out here. Collins told TechCrunch that the gateway and framework would be open source and free, but that it would charge for the dashboard. There’s no word on what that charge might be, and we noticed that a “contact sales” link appears on the web pages for the dashboard AND the gateway.

It will be no coincidence that the platform beta was announced at the same time as a $10m lump of Series A funding for Serverless Inc from Lightspeed Venture Partners, together with Trinity Ventures. [ At time of writing Serverless’ website still said it had “received funding from two of the top VC firms in the cloud infrastructure space (we’ll announce who soon)”.]

The official announcement of the funding injection cited research claiming the serverless market would grow from $1.88bn in 2016 to $7.72bn in 2021. More tangibly, it said that “Last year, 2.8 million instances of the Serverless Framework performed over 8 million deployments to various cloud providers like AWS, Google and Microsoft.”