Congrats on the raise, but I'll be honest it really rubs me the wrong way that they renamed to "Serverless Framework" from JAWS. They should have picked a different name. The word "Serverless", for better or worse, was what the community settled on. Lot of companies and individuals use it in many different ways and have before this project existed. But they are trying to own it[1]. Not being a good community member IMO.<p>Edit: An example of the kind of thing I am concerned will happen[2]. Use the word "serverless" in a project? Get a take down notice.<p>[1]<a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:t7tj9h.5.3" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:t7t...</a><p>[2]<a href="https://twitter.com/sindresorhus/status/776142274564616192" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/sindresorhus/status/776142274564616192</a>
Are there other examples of an open-source community project taking on several million dollars in venture capital funding? It seems a bit odd to me.<p>I'm not sure I'm comfortable using a presumably open-source, free (beer and speech) tool knowing that the group behind it will have to find a way to monetize their users in order to justify the investment from VCs at some point down the road. Open-source developers should of course be able to be compensated for their work, and the project has to find a way to sustain itself (I work for a company whose main product is open-source so I know this better than most), but the venture capital model doesn't seem like a good fit with the interests of the community, in my opinion.<p>That said, Serverless is a great tool, and congrats on the 1.0. Thanks to the team for their hard work.
I recently started using APEX. It doesn't rely on CloudFormation and has supports for hacking Golang support. Its worth a look if your getting more serious about Lambda development and interested in other options. <a href="http://apex.run/" rel="nofollow">http://apex.run/</a>
I really love the new development being done to simplify cloud deployments of stateless horizontally scalable services.<p>Once Serverless supports other λaas offerings I think this will really take off.<p>In addition to the big boys (Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft), I'd love to see some alternative stable open source providers come about. Maybe something built on top of kubernetes or docker swarm.
Good work on the funding.<p>I saw a link on the side to sign up for a beta of the serverless platform, so I did but just keep getting redirected back to the blog post. Is anything supposed to happen?
Nice work! I am delving into setting up services on Lambda at the moment, and it can get really fiddly and messy. I like the way server<framework scaffolds projects and makes deployment a one line option. Interested to see where this goes.
So it Server<i>less</i> Framework that seems to be considerably tied to AWS <i>servers</i>.<p>EDIT. Only writing this because its in fact possible to imagine serverLESS framework these days (web workers, p2p etc), but this seems to be just about more volatile servers.