There’s the old expression that goes ‘you can’t stop progress’, and often times the digital world and advances in it are the best examples of how this tends to be true. Cloud computing really has become an unstoppable force, and the way we’re seeing the entire digital world conforming to the new realities its ushering in isn’t something that’s going change. It’s always good to move into some ‘new’ things with caution, but there’s nothing that warrants not embracing the cloud as much as we can. Or at least that seems to be the overarching mindset of the majority of engineers and the influential decision makers that decide where their expertise is directed. Now we’re not developers here at 4GoodHosting, but like any other quality Canadian web hosting provider we do take an interest in the major structural building blocks that make the digital world go around, and continue to make it so that the people we provide with solid and reliable web hosting are able to get more out of their interests - whatever those interests may be. Redefining Serverless Serverless was once a handy platform that saved you from having to size server resources correctly, plus removing resources when no longer needed. Nowadays though it’s a catchall that will have a different meaning depending on its applications and the specifics of who’s providing serverless as a service on the public clouds. Now there’s not a systems engineer alive that’s not familiar with Kubernetes. It has become the nearly default open source container cluster and orchestration platform, and eventually seeing it go serverless was pretty much a given. Features such as networking, service discovery, scaling and cluster & container federation multi cloud support are the benefits we’re likely to see start making real impacts soon—and every one fo them is serverless enabled. Serverless for Statefulness The idea of statefulness may not receive the best reception with newer developers, but serverless does support statefulness. Some may continue to see them a principally incompatible, given that serverless systems execute a serverless function in a stateless manner. However, that’s not going to be accurate. Keep in mind that many applications - including...
