INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Serverless, Inc came to the serverless game early, creating an open source framework for developers back in 2015
Today, they want to build on that earlier product to give developers more control over deployment and delivery of serverless applications
To that end, they announced a $10 million Series A round led by Lightspeed Ventures
They have now raised a total of $13 million, according to the company.The company also announced the release of the Serverless Platform,
which include the Serverless Framework, Serverless Dashboard and Serverless Gateway
The Framework lets developers set up their serverless code across different cloud platforms and set conditions on the deployment such as
function rules and infrastructure dependencies
The dashboard gives visibility and information about the deployment, so that you can track and trace serverless functions over time,
regardless of the cloud platform you&re using.Diagram: Serverless, Inc.The gateway provides a method to pull in legacy tools into a
As the company describes it, &The Serverless Gateway allows businesses to easily integrate serverless into their existing mesh of services,
including containers, SaaS or other legacy systems
The Event Gateway, along with serverless compute, gives organizations a powerful way to react to all of their business events with
code.&Company founder and CEO Austen Collins says that as companies shift to a serverless-first mindset, we&re going to see a lower cost to
build and deploy applications, but that is going to take some tooling to really work across a team or large organization, tooling his
company wants to provide.&I think now we are seeing widespread demand for tools to operationalize serverless development, tools to make
developers across an entire team, or even across entire organization all practice serverless development in a safe and standard way,&
Collins explained.The framework and communications gateway are open source and always will be, Collins, explained
They will make money by charging companies to use the dashboard to get insights into their serverless code or to access a hosted version of
People can host their own version of the gateway through using the open source version of the product.With serverless, developers no longer
have to worry about the infrastructure required to run their applications
Instead, they create functions that trigger events and the cloud vendor takes care of deploying the necessary compute, memory and storage to
run that event.It offers a number of advantages including eliminating the need to worry about deploying the appropriate infrastructure and
only paying for the infrastructure you use each time your function triggers a given event
This is in stark contrast to the traditional approach to development where you deploy a server for your application and pay for it 24/7
whether it happens to be in use or not.While this approach undoubtedly has the potential to remove some of the complexity associated with
developing and deploying applications, it doesn&t remove all of the requirements developers have to deploy and manage their code according
to a set of defined policies
The kind of tool set Serverless Inc is offering provides some additional control and insight developers could be lacking with such a new
approach.The company launched in 2015 and currently has 22 employees in a distributed office approach
Their main office is in San Francisco
Customers include EA Sports, Nordstrom, Reuters and Coca-Cola
The new money should allow them to expand and build out the platform further.
