Cloudflare adds AI services as CTO says “a developer platform without AI” is little use

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
Cloudflare has introduced new services at its Developer Week now under way, including Constellation, which enables running inference tasks using pre-trained models in Cloudflare...

Reduce costs by 90% by moving from microservices to monolith: Amazon internal case study raises eyebrows

CI/CD Tim Anderson -
An Amazon case study from the Prime Video team has caused some surprise and amusement in the developer community, thanks to its frank assessment...

Wasm-based Spin 1.0 released to address ‘limitations of serverless’

Development Tim Anderson -
Fermyon has released Spin 1.0, the first stable version of its open source tool for compiling applications to WebAssembly for serverless deployment. Developers can...

AWS releases Application Composer to make serverless ‘easier’ but initial scope is limited

Serverless Tim Anderson -
AWS has fully released Application Composer, a visual designer for serverless applications. First introduced at the re:Invent conference late last year, the tool aims...

Improved Durable Functions coming to Microsoft’s Azure Functions service – but what about cold start?

Development Tim Anderson -
Microsoft’s Anirudh Garg, who leads the engineering team for Azure Functions, has posted abut planned improvements to the service for 2023, including a focus...

Interview: Why AWS prefers VMs for code isolation, and tips on developing for Lambda

Development Tim Anderson -
At last week's re:Invent in Las Vegas, DevClass caught up Anthony Liguori, AWS Distinguished Engineer to talk about virtualization, the newly launched Snapstart and...

CodeCatalyst introduced at re:Invent: One-stop DevOps for AWS… on AWS

CI/CD Tim Anderson -
AWS has released new development tools for building serverless applications. AWS CodeCatalyst, now in preview, sets up new projects complete with a cloud development...

Interview: Google’s Kelsey Hightower on making sense of back-end vs front-end vs Edge

Development Tim Anderson -
The Vercel-sponsored Next.js conference was on last week, and DevClass caught up with Kelsey Hightower, a Google Distinguished Engineer, and co-author (with Brendan Burns...

Serverside WebAssembly hyped at Kubecon North America: tooling for Docker and Dapr integration introduced

Containers Tim Anderson -
Kubecon has kicked off, both virtual and in-person in Detroit, Michigan, including a Cloud Native Wasm (WebAssmbly) Day hosted by CNCF (Cloud Native Computing...

Cloudflare previews workerd, an open source JavaScript/Wasm runtime for ‘nanoservices’

Development Tim Anderson -
Cloudflare has released workerd in beta, an open-source JavaScript/Wasm (WebAssembly) runtime based on the same code as Cloudflare Workers, a serverless platform which runs...

Jamstack crowd rediscovering the server? Netlify introduces new Next.js middleware runtime

Development Tim Anderson -
Netlify, which runs a hosting platform for modern JavaScript frameworks, has introduced a new runtime environment for the Next.js framework, including beta support for...

Cloud-native developers grow, proportion knowingly using Kubernetes slides – report

Containers Tim Anderson -
A report out this week indicates that while the population of cloud-native developers is growing, the number of programmers consciously using Kubernetes appears to...

Netlify chooses Deno rather than Node.js to power new Edge Functions

DevOps Tim Anderson -
Netlify, a company which offers a hosted platform for websites built with Jamstack (Javascript, API and Markup) architecture, has introduced a public beta of...

How Function URLs simplify setting up an AWS Lambda endpoint

Serverless Tim Anderson -
AWS has introduced Lambda Function URLs, an enhancement to its serverless platform that makes an HTTPS endpoint a built-in feature. In some respects the surprise...

Firecrackers return, as microVM version 1.0 finally strikes

Containers Julia Schmidt -
What’s good enough for serverless cornerstone AWS Lambda seems finally to be good enough for other production environments as well, which is why the...

As good as new: Serverless Framework 3.0 emerges thoroughly cleansed, fitted with stage parameters

Serverless Julia Schmidt -
While the Serverless Framework project provides a reliable stream of small regular updates, new features have become somewhat of a rarity for the tool...

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