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Azure says service is running fine, but is adding capacity anyway…

Team Devclass - March 30, 2020

Microsoft has said it is adding capacity to its Azure platform over the coming weeks to deal with surging demand as a...

Running containers and Kubernetes? You’re completely normal, CNCF figures show

Joe Fay - March 5, 2020

Kubernetes and related projects are most definitely in production, the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s user survey shows. The...

Whats the point: AWS extends savings to Lambda, Azure drills on costs, Travis goes large, OAS goes 3.0.3

Joe Fay - February 21, 2020

AWS has extended its Compute Savings Plans to cover Lambda functions, promising savings of up to 17 per cent. The vendor’s Savings...

Serverless dips toes into CI/CD

Julia Schmidt - February 5, 2020

Teams still troubled by the thought of continuously integrating and deploying their serverless functions might find help in a new CI/CD offering...

What’s the point: CNCF signs off on 2019, CircleCI rolls out Orbs, Travis maintenance, Functions 3.0

Team Devclass - January 24, 2020

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has drawn a line under the last year, with the publication of its CNCF Annual Report 2019....

A Cloud Guru swallows Linux Academy, as Scotch.io pours itself into Digital Ocean

Joe Fay - December 17, 2019

Devs’ choice of online training providers narrowed a little this week, as Linux Academy was swallowed by A Cloud Guru, and developer...

Atlassian hammers out Forge cloud-app development platform

Julia Schmidt - December 16, 2019

DevOps tool vendor Atlassian wants to get customers started on writing apps that integrate with its own product portfolio, introducing them to...

Microsoft goes live with Azure Functions 3.0…but full tooling won’t come till 2020

Joe Fay - December 10, 2019

Microsoft has announced the go-live release of Azure Functions 3.0, but full tooling for the software giant’s serverless offering will take a...

AWS gets API with HTTP Gateway

Joe Fay - December 5, 2019

AWS has expanded its API Gateway service, adding support for HTTP APIs and introducing a new pricing tier to go with it.

AWS warms Lambda devs’ hearts, promises end to cold starts

Joe Fay - December 4, 2019

AWS has promised an end to that scourge of serverless computing - the cold start - at least when it comes to...

What’s the point: JetBrains blasts out IntelliJ IDEA, GitLab users on Lambda, HashiCorp serves up mugs, Django hits 3.0

Joe Fay - December 2, 2019

JetBrains has shipped IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3, promising faster startup by parallelising some previously sequential instructions and reorganising classes. It also claims better...

Red Hat and Microsoft debut KEDA 1.0, promise to play nice with Knative

Joe Fay - November 20, 2019

The KEDA project has hit v1.0, six months after Microsoft and Red Hat first unveiled their bid to deliver event-driven scale capabilities...

Google fires GA starting gun on Cloud Run

Team Devclass - November 15, 2019

Google has announced general availability for Cloud Run, the serverless container environment it first debuted in beta back in May.

Google Cloud Datastore has Monday meltdown, tips other services over

Joe Fay - November 11, 2019

Google Cloud is having a manic Monday, with a succession of the vendor’s services having problems getting up and running after problems...

Azure serves up pre-warmed Functions to offset cold starts

Daniel Robinson - November 7, 2019

Microsoft has unveiled a number of enhancements for its Azure Functions serverless computing service, including PowerShell support for event-driven automation, extended language...

New Relic buys IOPipe, plugs it into own serverless offering

Joe Fay - November 5, 2019

New Relic has snapped up AWS Lambda monitoring specialist IOPipe, and will fold the company’s technology into its own serverless offering before...