The US-based cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean has launched a serverless computing solution, DigitalOcean Functions. 

According to Anshu Agarwal, VP Serverless at DigitalOcean, serverless computing has been one of the most popular requests from DigitalOcean users. In recent years, serverless computing has gained tremendous popularity among developers building modern apps, and according to IDC’s IaaSView buyer survey, 25% of cloud IaaS buyers intend to utilise serverless functions in the next 12 months.

Serverless is a cloud-native development model that allows developers to build and run applications without having to manage servers. DigitalOcean Functions will provide a cost effective computing solution by allowing developers to create serverless functions. Developers will be able to write functions in their preferred languages without the need to learn complex concepts like Kubernetes and containers. It will enable them to focus more on coding as scaling of infrastructure components and resource managament will be automatically done based on demand.

DigitalOcean functions will allow developers to build apps that require on demand functions and extend them with serverless computing. “A developer with a container-based app could add a function as an API endpoint, enabling them to easily extend their app running on containers with serverless components,” said Anshu Agarwal.

The serverless solution supports popular programming languages like Node.js, Python, Go, and PHP. It also makes testing and integration easier.

In addition to simplifying efforts, DigitalOcean Functions will do away with the need to maintain idle servers thereby saving costs. Users will pay for resources only when they are running.  Customers can avail the product across all DigitalOcean regions including New York, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Singapore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto and Bangalore.