DevOps to DevApps
With evolution of highly scalable, low latency automated infrastructures, we are ushering into an era of what we can call as DevApps. DevApps, gives developers, the ability to build applications with the same kind of automation and real-time response that DevOps brought.
A quicker adoption trend indicates three serverless approaches which are driving DevApps to a reality today -
1. Serverless Functions
Managed platforms are a goto spot for enterprises to run business during unfortunate Covid Pandemic times. Cloud-Native Serverless Landscape can be the first step to create deployable functions across managed cloud platforms. More importantly, it’s not easy to develop traditional microservices and serverless functions on the same application runtime along the container-native way. Framework like Quarkus are addressing this complex issue without a steep learning curve for both imperative and serverless applications.
2. Serverless Events
Event-driven services are growing because they increase flexibility and agility. They also reduce dependencies and complexity in application development. Serverless events enable developers to maximise these benefits when they implement event publishers and exchange data across serverless platforms. Native Eventing is built on CloudEvents to allow developers to write serverless events with late-binding features such as event creation, event sinks, and event consumption.
3. Serverless Workflows
Serverless Workflow is a vendor-neutral and platform-independent markup for orchestrating services on multiple runtimes and cloud/container platform. To specify complex business workflows with serverless workloads, Serverless Workflow allows developers to define the workflow models with a vendor-neutral specification for orchestrating serverless events. The Serverless Workflow specification is an initiative project by CNCF.
Coming up for DevApps-
With event-driven architecture and DevApps, there are considerable benefits for companies that want to reduce complexity, increase agility, and leverage the robust capabilities of cloud native architecture. By adopting a microservices architecture based on serverless functions/workflows and an event-driven architecture, organisations can take advantage of their own two-pizza rule — where large organisations can logically divide up work and function independently and more quickly
