By Xiao Sun [This post is Part Two of a three part series. Part One covered Why Serverless, and Part Three will cover creating and Securing Serverless.] In this post, using the AWS Lambda service as a basis, we will investigate what is behind serverless, how functions are invoked, and what resources are available to build a powerful service. …
Serverless 101: When It Makes Sense and When It Doesn’t
By Xiao Sun [This post is Part One of a three part series. Part Two will cover How to Develop Serverless Functions, and Part Three will cover Serverless Security.] The use of serverless cloud services for enterprise applications continues to increase as new applications are developed that can leverage these new computing platforms. The benefits of serverless include on-demand …
Runtime Security for Knative, a Kubernetes Based Serverless Computing Platform
By Fei Huang What is Serverless? The nature of a serverless computing framework is to abstract applications at much higher level to provide portability, resource utilization and cost benefits. For example delivering API level or function level code that can run only when needed. Ideally, after developers have checked in code, a serverless computing framework will take over control of …