FaaS

July 15, 2020

DEVELOPER

Explore Serverless with Fission – DevOps Series, Part 19

3 min read

Serverless is here to stay and nobody likes lock-in! So check out the full blog series to get a good understanding on how to get started with several different FaaS engines over kubernetes.

July 7, 2020

DEVELOPER

Serverless with Kubeless – DevOps Series, Part 18

2 min read

Explore Kubeless, another interesting FaaS runtime engine, in this installment of the series that gets you hands-on with serverless.

June 23, 2020

DEVELOPER

Intro to Serverless – DevOps Series, Part 16

3 min read

See how developers deal with the complexity around containers, micro-services, schedulers, and service meshes by going Serverless (or FaaS).

March 20, 2019

CLOUD

A Solution Looking For A Problem?

1 min read

Last year, on a date that he is uncertain of, Cisco’s own Pete Johnson saw a tweet that said: “Serverless is a solution looking for a problem.” The statement frustrated...

November 2, 2018

CLOUD

Examining the FaaS on K8S Market

6 min read

In this blog we’ll explore the different approaches that each FaaS runtime takes and what the developer experience is like...

October 4, 2018

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered, Episode 56: Trekking the Serverless Landscape with Krishnan Subramanian

1 min read

In this episode I think it’s fair to say that we get down and dirty on the subject of serverless. We muck around in the different technologies, the different terminologies, adoption patterns, and potential impact on the industry.

September 22, 2017

CLOUD

Function-as-a-Service 301: New Frontiers

2 min read

At some point in this series, either Function-as-a-Service 101: What is It? or Function-as-a-Services 201: Common Architectures, you might have said to yourself, “Wait a minute, Cisco sells servers so why are you talking about serverless technologies?”  Even keeping in mind the oxymoronic details discussed in the 101 post that there are actually servers still […]

August 22, 2017

CLOUD

Function-as-a-Service 201: Common Architectures

3 min read

In my last entry in this space, entitled Function-as-a-Service 101: What is it?, I introduced the concepts, players, and basic usage of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS).  But how are people actually using it?  Welcome to Function-as-a-Service 201: Common Architectures. Back in December at AWS re:Invent, the definitive talk on this topic was led by AWS Solution Architects […]

February 23, 2016

INNOVATION

Huge Opportunities for Service Providers at the Intersection of Fog and Mobility

3 min read

I have the privilege of being in Barcelona this week for Mobile World Congress. With nearly 100,000 attendees and an impressive conference agenda, it’s a week packed with not only ideas and innovation, but with interactions with leaders, startups, disruptors, and other major players in mobile technology. The topic of mobility continues to dominate and […]