Tag: serverless

Evolution of Compute and Big data

by on July 15, 2018 12:57 pm
The primitive cloud, better known as “virtualization” evolved as a way to abstract the physical infrastructure which used to be manually deployed. The evolution of cloud computing from plain server virtualization is depicted in the flow below developed by Gartner in 2012 [1]. The first big step in compute evolution was from physical servers to… Read more Evolution of Compute and Big data

Serverless computing and FaaS

by on July 24, 2017 2:59 pm
In Friday’s lecture was a brief mention of AWS Lambda and Serverless Computing. As a hardware engineer, I was intrigued and wanted to dig more into this, because the thought of being able to run computing workloads without hardware servers terrifies me! The executive summary of serverless computing is that it is simply an abstraction… Read more Serverless computing and FaaS

Dude, where’s my server?

by on July 14, 2017 10:29 am
By 2020 one million new devices are expected to come online every hour (Source: Gartner). What impact will this have for how data is generated, stored, and accessed? The answer, huge. Jeff Wesler, Vice President and Lab Director – IBM Research, recently shared a few facts that can give insight into why our mobile habits… Read more Dude, where’s my server?