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Three Emerging Trends in the Serverless and Low-Code Space
Several notable corporations, including SAP, IBM, Pivotal, Google, and Red Hat, have developed an open-source community project called Knative to add some stability to this space

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Several notable corporations, including SAP, IBM, Pivotal, Google, and Red Hat, have developed an open-source community project called Knative to add some stability to this space.
Fremont, CA: For decades, servers have been an integral aspect of computing design. However, with the advent of the cloud, businesses began to migrate to web-based server infrastructure, ushering in the era of serverless architecture. Along with serverless, the low-code or no-code method has been gaining popularity in the software industry. Instead of manually creating thousands of lines of code, a low-code method provides a development environment where software applications can be produced utilizing a graphical user interface. Here are three trends in serverless and low-code space:
Standardization of serverless applications
Although serverless computing is still a relatively new technology, a solid ecosystem of platforms and technologies is available. However, there was a lack of standardization and compatibility among cloud service providers in this area. Several notable corporations, including SAP, IBM, Pivotal, Google, and Red Hat, have developed an open-source community project called Knative to add some stability to this space. On Kubernetes, this project provides components for deploying, managing, and executing serverless, cloud-native apps. The platform can make deploying and running container-based serverless apps on any cloud much easier. In addition, organizations can use this project to construct poly-cloud apps that consume services from several providers as part of a single solution.
Hybrid serverless models
The majority of commercial customers still use inherently hybrid apps. Some programs are built to run on AWS, while others run on-premises and across public clouds. As a result, serverless technology is predicted to become more common in enterprise applications, and it may be combined with other technologies. Kubernetes, on the other hand, has grown to become one of the most popular open-source container solutions, and it is projected to become the foundation for serverless infrastructure. Furthermore, due to Kubernetes' current popularity and widespread use, new hybrid containers-as-a-service models may be introduced in the near future.
Innovations by prominent cloud services providers
AWS Lambda, a serverless computing service, has been a catalyst for serverless computing adoption, which is provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Users of this service can write functions, self-contained apps, and runtimes in one of the supported languages. Users can also submit these programs and runtimes to AWS Lambda, which performs the functions flexibly and efficiently. It also provides continuous scaling, no need to maintain servers, and consistent performance at any scale.