New Report: For the Love of Serverless

The "For the Love of Serverless: 2020 AWS Lambda Benchmark Report" provides insights into the growing adoption of serverless computing, particularly within enterprises, highlighting a 206% increase in average weekly invocations and a 178% rise in functions per account over the past year. Despite the benefits of serverless, such as increased agility and scalability, challenges remain, including the complexity of developing applications that interact with multiple managed services and organizational hurdles in adopting serverless as a primary architecture. Key industry voices like Jeremy Daly and Farrah Campbell discuss the evolving landscape and the need for tools to support central operations teams. The report focuses on AWS Lambda, noting the popularity of Node.js and Python for serverless applications and anticipating increased Java adoption due to AWS's improvements in cold start times and VPC functionalities. The report is based on trillions of serverless events processed by New Relic One, with findings and trends to be discussed in a webinar featuring industry experts.