Whether we are building a simple to-do list or a complex online banking platform, the security aspect of the application should always be one of our priorities. We should never deploy our application to the production, hoping it will not get hacked. The moment we start drafting our initial plans for the software, we should […]

Serverless security is becoming one really hot topic these days - especially with the ever-growing adoption of serverless computing. Yet, should it really become a developer's nightmare? Can we not simply bake serverless security into our dev-ops lifecycle, sit back, and relax while automated security tooling does the job for us? Can we automate serverless […]

Serverless computing gives scalability, no server management, and cost reduction, with a pay-as-you-go billing model. But adopting serverless technologies may be challenging for you.The big cloud providers’ serverless platforms (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM Cloud Functions) offer low-level building blocks you can use to design and build serverless architecture development […]

The SLAppForge Debugger for NodeJS consists of two end-user visible components. The first is an AWS Lambda Layer which contains the slappforge-lambda-debug-proxy Node module. The second is a user agent, which executes on the local machine where the favorite IDE runs. The Lambda function connects with the IDE through the SLAppForge Debug Server, and both communication ends […]

Business evolution is happening faster than ever. Enterprises are continuously experimenting with new strategies to outperform their competitors. Choosing AWS over data centres is one such strategic change which most of the organizations are working on to gain significant business value. Building your own data centre and maintaining it is undoubtedly a huge cost and […]

The SLAppForge Debugger for Java consists of two end-user visible components. The first is an AWS Lambda Layer, and the second is a user agent, which executes on the local machine where the favorite IDE runs. The Lambda function connects with the IDE through the SLAppForge Debug Server, and both communication ends are secured with […]

Why is everyone interested in moving to serverless computing? Nowadays the business world is incorporating serverless computing to gain success in many aspects. It offers a path to an environmentally friendly, innovative approach to computing, and various capabilities compared to the existing infrastructures. SLAppForge Sigma is one of the simplest Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) to […]

The “serverless” computing paradigm emerged back in 2014 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a new cloud service called Lambda — a serverless computing platform. During the short lifespan of 5 years, AWS Lambda became the most mature FaaS platform to date. Few other vendors like Google Cloud Platform and Azure joined the serverless marathon […]

Technological advancements shouldn’t always be viewed in light of profit and cost. At the rate the world is shifting from deep-fried chicken nuggets to the very boring green salad, the conversations are all shifting towards a greener world which also has a great deal of promotional value. During a time where even the United Nations […]

Serverless application development is one of the trending technologies these days. Thanks to the rapid contribution of the leading cloud service providers, the serverless concept has evolved with a strong base. Most of the enterprises take hand in hand with Serverless for better technological and business advancements. Even though serverless computing has become a turning […]

It’s a matter of identifying the SERVERLESS NEED! As discussed in our previous blog article regarding how to convince your boss to go serverless highlighting the serverless benefits, one might also argue regarding the difficulty in observability, latency, vendor lock-in, and also difficulty in hiring developers who are familiar specifically with serverless technologies. Nevertheless, there […]

The decision to go serverless depends on whether you Think Serverless! If a 50 year old CEO was approached to “Go Serverless” in 2019, most probably the conversion would be a smile. For him it will be nothing but another approval requested by the IT manager who can explain a system minus ROI. Technological advances […]

Have you ever used Serverless Caching? Most probably you would say NO! Certainly, you might not have used it as it is. But, what if I say you have been using it all the time? Yes, it's true. In this article, let's discuss how that can be true. Firstly, let’s look at what is Serverless […]

Even long before serverless was born, message queues had been a popular weapon in the arsenal of software developers and architects to integrate software systems. First, when there were large software systems which were incompatible with each other, message queues acted as the intermediary communication channels between them. Then the world moved into distributed systems […]

A while back, we announced basic support for Google Cloud Platform in SLAppForge Sigma, the one-and-only serverless IDE. That was good news for AWS fans who want to use Google APIs in their projects; but not so much for the native Google Cloud lovers.But today, we have good news for y'all! Sigma the serverless IDE, […]

Can every storage service or database service be called a serverless storage or a serverless database? What makes one storage service being put into the serverless category and others drop out? This article will cover the basic properties a persistence service should have, for it to be called a serverless storage or a serverless persistence […]

Serverless is currently one of the trending topics out there in software architectural patterns. Because of the tremendous advantages, there's a significant tendency of switching to serverless among enterprise-level companies. There are many success stories out there and if your engineering teams are potential enough to make a great impact and wise enough to make […]