We have made it through the summer and it’s that time of year where the leaves begin to change, it gets darker sooner, and everyone starts to bundle up. I hope everyone reading had a great summer.
I personally had a great September. This year, I had the privilege of being able to help organize the first ever San Francisco Bay Area Kubernetes Community Day (KCD). These are volunteer organized events that are sanctioned by the CNCF.
I was privileged to work with amazing people like Rey Lejano, Matthew Cascio, Natalie Lunbeck, and Lisa-Marie Namphy as we create a day long event with amazing speakers and attendees.
While there wasn’t a lot of talk specifically around serverless runtime, most everything mentioned was relevant to a serverless platform as well as a Kubernetes based platform.
I would encourage everyone to look for a KCD near them next year to participate in. Open source is only amazing because of the people who contribute to it.
On that note, let’s jump into some of the serverless news you may have missed.
Serverless Industry
Serverless Computing market expecting to see a big move in 2033.
Moody’s reduced change ticket turnaround by 83% by adopting a serverless architecture
How serverless is transforming retail tech in a multi-cloud world
Startups
Guepard Secure $1.2M to launch serverless data platform for AI Agents
Trigger.dev launches to build and deploy serverless (fully-managed) AI agents and Workflows
Product Launches
Google Cloud Run GPUs are now in private preview for Worker Pools
Tria Federal Unveils Tria Forge. A Serverless AI Platform geared toward security and “codeless AI” development
AWS integrates LocalStack with VS-Code Toolkit. The goal is to streamline serverless development
Runtimes
Data
Mother Duck announces European Cloud Region to bring Serverless Analytics to the EU
Enterprise data teams cut operational costs by 40% (and serverless helped!)
AI
AWS Hires two VPs to drive Agentic AI for Agentcore and Kiro
Is Cloudflare’s Edge Computing Momentum helping in an AI world?
Modal Labs raises $80M to simplify Cloud AI (with Serverless)
Learning
How to Start Your DevOps career (spoiler, learn serverless)
Closing Thoughts
This month wasn’t as heavy in the news but I do think we are seeing some trends. One, people are saving money by moving from traditional architectures to ones that leverage more serverless. Two, Serverless as an industry is growing and is expected to hit $9B in value by 2033. Three, AI loves serverless. AI is supposed to make development easier. Serverless makes development easier. It only makes sense that they work together.
I love seeing serverless startups continue to take off and established serverless companies expand. I also love seeing traditional companies adopt serverless either internally or as a product offering.
Let’s see what October brings!
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