Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and
Serverless, Inc. today announced a partnership
that brings together the resources and expertise of Tencent, one of the largest
internet companies in the world, and the serverless experience and open-source
savvy of the team behind the widely adopted and popular, with over 32,000
Github stars, Serverless Framework project.
"Software is eating the world. Unfortunately, most businesses still
can't deliver software successfully, much less do so at the pace needed to stay
competitive. For those who wish to keep up, let alone lead, software delivery
and operation must be radically simplified. The next generation, serverless
cloud we are building with Serverless, Inc. will bring this kind of radical
simplification," said Yunong Xiao, General Manager, Serverless, PaaS, and
Devops, Tencent Cloud.
Serverless architectures are built on next-generation public cloud services,
like Tencent Serverless Cloud Functions, that auto-scale and charge only when
used. When scale, capacity planning & cost management are automated, the
result is software that's easier to build, maintain, and often up to 99%
cheaper.
Serverless architectures also require a shift in how organizations think and
work. "Our goal at Serverless Inc., working together with partners like
Tencent Cloud, is to give developers, teams and organizations all of the tools
they need to build and operate serverless applications, in one simple, powerful
& elegant experience," said Austen Collins, CEO and Founder of
Serverless, Inc.
As a first step in their collaboration,
Serverless, Inc. and Tencent Cloud announced today the availability of three
open-source, Serverless Framework projects that make it easy to deploy three of
the most common serverless uses cases onto the Tencent Cloud: REST APIs, static
websites, and Express.js apps. As the partnership progresses, both Serverless,
Inc. and Tencent will invest resources in the joint development of support for
additional serverless use cases, as well as tight integration between
Serverless Framework Pro and Tencent Cloud, to enable full lifecycle management
of serverless applications on Tencent Cloud.