Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween if you celebrate and an awesome October if you don’t (and if you do). My October was pretty run of the mill for me. Which is pretty much a good thing in my mind. You do want to keep things exciting but every so often, it’s nice to just chill for a bit.
I did get a lot of game time with “Ghost of Yōtei” and I also went to Denver to catch-up with some old friends. I also played a bit with different serverless technologies.
I am definitely that person who gets bored at times then decides to play with a new technology and then just moves onto a new thing. Every so often though, there is a technology that really sticks with me. Knative is one of those.
In case you are unfamiliar, it is a piece of open source software that enables one to turn their Kubernetes cluster into a serverless platform. Well, this month, it officially graduated at CNCF! This is basically the CNCF “rubber stamping” the project and declaring it fully mature.
I am a huge fan of the platform. You can read my old Serverless Eventing blog to see that. But this graduation means so many different things. One thing I am looking forward to seeing is people using it for AI Applications.
I plan on experimenting and write more about that on my blog and here but for now, let’s jump into the news.
Serverless Industry
Serverless Computing market expecting to see a big move in 2034.
7EDGE cuts cloud costs thanks to serverless
Startups
Crusoe raises $1.38B to make AI data centers (and offers serverless GPUs)
Product Launches
Coreweave launches serverless reinforcement learning
Tria Federal Unveils Tria Forge. A Serverless AI Platform geared toward security and “codeless AI” development
IBM introduces serverless fleets with GPUs for high-performance
Runtimes
Your next app may run on “paranoid lambdas”
Cloudflare achieves a 99.99% warm start rate!
Data
MariaDB introduces a unified database platform (that has serverless functionality) to accelerate AI application development
DeltaStream Unveils Next-Gen fusion platform for real-time analytics
AI
Yotta launches Shakti Studio, a Serverless AI Cloud meant to speed up Enterprise go-to-market.
Amazon Bedrock simplifies access with automatic enablement of serverless models.
Learning
Closing Thoughts
Serverless clearly is expanding WAY beyond the definition of runtime functions. We are now seeing serverless databases and AI. In 2026, I predict we will see even more serverless AI in the form of serverless MCP servers and Agents. We are already seeing that but I expect to see some real innovation next year.
November is also KubeCon + CloudNativeCon - North America 2025. I am always excited to go to this event. I learn so much and there are always great talks. I want to learn more about the serverless stuff like Knative, KEDA and WASM.
I will be sure to report more on what happens in serverless in the next newsletter.
See you all in November!
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