An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
When you think of serverless computing today, you’ll likely think of Amazon Lambda, AWS’s abstracted compute service. Yet, while Lambda attracts most of the serverless attention, it has two fundamental flaws.
First, Lambda functions are stateless. If you want to keep track of anything, you need to tie your Lambda functions to some sort of stateful cloud service – either in AWS (thus running up your cloud bill) or outside AWS (running up your cloud bill even more due to ingress and egress charges, not to mention increasing your latency).
The second flaw: vendor lock-in. There’s no portability of your functions from Lambda to, say, Google’s serverless offering, or any other, for that matter.
The serverless platform from Nimbella addresses both of these issues. It runs on Kubernetes (and other open source software) in any cloud – public or private. You can also run it on one of the many Kubernetes as-a-Service offerings. And of course, you could run it on-premises as well.
Not only does this cloud-agnosticism resolve the vendor lock-in, but Nimbella is also able to provide cloud-native state management capabilities as an integral part of its serverless offering.
While Nimbella predictably works well with containers, it doesn’t require them – and the company is exploring containerless options that are particularly well-suited for edge computing.
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