Serverless 101: When It Makes Sense and When It Doesn’t

Glen Kosaka Cloud Security

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

Fei Huang Cloud Security

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 …