Welcome to August (though you are probably reading this in September). I had a pretty chill August but I welcome a chill time. Not everything needs to be go go go all the time. It’s summer, let’s soak up the sun a bit!
This will be the first go of our new format. I will break down the news into 6 categories, technically eight if you include the intro and outro. First will be “Serverless Industry” which will cover serverless as an industry and general serverless news. The others are pretty self explanatory. So let’s jump in!
Serverless Industry
CXO Today talks about Serverless being the next frontier for “cost-effective cloud”. Makes sense, pay only for what you use without losing functionality!
Startups
How Startups can optimize cloud costs (with serverless).
Product Launches
Elastic launches Serverless Log Analytics. This will be a lower price than similar offerings from Elastic.
Oracle Launches Exadata Service for AI, Compliance, and Location-Critical Workloads, a fully managed serverless database.
7EDGE Unveils API Gateway Expertise to Accelerate Serverless Innovation
Runtimes
AWS Lambda integrated with GitHub Actions to Automate Serverless Deployments
Serverless Containers are a growing trend!
Data
AI
NextGen Cloud launches on-demand access to Open AI GPT-OSS
Learning
A blog on Growth Jockey talks about how serverless architecture can enhance serverless websites.
Closing Thoughts
I think the big theme that we are seeing here is that serverless is still growing and enterprises are seeing it as an actual product that they can use versus just being glue to connect things.
It is also great at cost savings. I know I am beating a dead horse here but serverless allows you to pay only for what you use. Granted, you can let costs go out of control if you don’t set proper guardrails. But if you do plan, you can see amazing savings with serverless.
We also see companies ramping up their serverless AI offerings. Cloudflare is seeking FedRAMP High for their serverless AI products and MariaDB re-acquired SkySQL.
Then of course we have the tools for developers such as serverless logs and an API gateway.
Let me know what you think of the new format. I think I will experiment with it a little bit until the end of 2025 and we’ll see what we get!
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