The American cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. announced the launch of its new serverless solution yesterday – DigitalOcean Functions.    DigitalOcean’s aim to make cloud computing as easy as possible was inhibited by the lack of serverless computing options. To fill this gap in the product portfolio, the company acquired the serverless platform, Nimbella.    This acquisition will bring an even easier way to build cloud apps on DigitalOcean’s platform. It will let the developers build applications without having to look into the nitty-gritty of managing the cloud infrastructure. DigitalOcean Functions shall enable cost-effective, fast, and scalable compute solutions to help small businesses build applications fast, scale automatically, and, above all, save costs effectively – all by eliminating the need to provision and maintain their servers.   A backstory   The chief product officer of DigitalOcean, Gabe Monroy said: “Serverless functions have been one of our most common customer requests.” Due to this, Nimbella, a leading serverless platform, was acquired last year, and continuous efforts were set forth for seamless integration into the DigialOcean cloud.    Although Serverless is booming recently, developers, especially from small businesses & startups, fret about the extensive efforts & costs required to provision and scale their server infrastructure. According […] read more