Azure Container Apps: Microsoft's New Serverless Container Service — Essentially Azure’s take on the Fargate (or Google Cloud Run!) approach of serverlessly running code packaged in containers without any particular opinions on runtimes or underlying models. Kelsey Hightower has a Twitter thread where he took it for a run, concluding it “feels like a limited version of Cloud Run” while acknowledging the future potential and that “serverless based on containers is the future”.

Daria Grigoriu (Microsoft)

Knative 1.0 Released — Knative is a popular ‘enterprise grade’ Kubernetes-based serverless platform developed in close partnership between VMWare, IBM, Red Hat and SAP.

Knative Team

App Performance Blocked By Your Database? — Database scaling can mean cost and complexity. PolyScale provides a plug-and-play serverless edge cache for databases. Scale globally in minutes without writing code or deploying infrastructure.

PolyScale.ai sponsor

How Cockroach Labs Built Its Serverless SQL Database — Cockroach Labs recently launched its automatically scaling, distributed CockroachDB Serverless database and here’s a little look behind the scenes at how it operates.

Andy Kimball

Lumigo Raises $29 Million — Lumigo started life as a service for monitoring AWS Lambda functions but has since branched out into numerous areas. This fundraising round is intended to increase their offerings around serverless and cloud-native observability generally.

Lumigo

A Deep Dive Into Serverless UI with TypeScript — Serverless UI is a command line tool that makes it easier to deploy Node-powered serverless apps to AWS Lambda.

Ikeh Akinyemi

Build Workflows for Amazon Forecast with AWS Step Functions — Amazon Forecast is yet another AWS service I hadn’t discovered yet, but it essentially does time series data forecasting based on historical data.

Péter Molnár and Sachin Doshi

Building a Difference Checker with Amazon S3 and AWS Lambda — The idea is that a Lambda function can log the differences between versions of an object/file uploaded to S3.

James Beswick

Creating AWS Lambda Environment Variables from AWS Secrets Manager — A way to convert information from Secrets Manager into Lambda environment variables.

Andy Hall