Fermyon Technologies announced that it has added a SQL database service
to Fermyon Cloud. Developers can now avoid the #1 pain point as they build
apps: provisioning and managing databases while having the exact same NoOps
experience in their local dev environment and the cloud execution environment.
Fermyon Cloud is now a complete serverless offering that is the fastest, most
secure, most flexible and most affordable serverless solution on the market.
Fermyon will be
showcasing this new capability currently in private beta this week at WeAreDevelopers World Congress.
Last year Fermyon introduced Spin, the popular open source product with
more than 3,800 GitHub stars and 96,000 downloads that is the easiest way for
developers to build WebAssembly serverless apps. A developer can get started
with Spin, going from blinking cursor to deployed serverless function in 66
seconds. Fermyon Cloud is a hosted serverless platform that can start up
Fermyon Spin apps in less than a millisecond, caching and optimizing apps as it
loads them, providing supersonic performance for each individual app.
Today developers using serverless offerings like AWS Lambda building full
stack apps have to painstakingly procure, create, instantiate and manage their
own SQL databases for any stateful serverless app. To eliminate this pain,
Fermyon has added a hosted and fully integrated SQL backend service directly
into Fermyon Cloud so when one serverless request stores data, any other
request can instantly retrieve, update or delete that data. This solves one of
the serverless developer's first and most vexing problems: building stateful
apps with stateless microservice architectures.
"We are delighted to be Fermyon's chosen partner in delivering
multi-region, edge-based SQLite, functionality to Fermyon's developers. Fermyon
has proven to offer the easiest serverless development experience which is also
blazingly fast. Adding Turso to the mix now means serverless developers can
develop full stack apps as well as more narrow microservice apps without
involving DevOps," said Glauber Costa, founder and CEO of Turso.
"No longer having to figure out how to connect to a database for basic
tasks like persisting session state or storing some simple data tables takes
away a major headache for app developers. This nicely adds to the story of
positioning WebAssembly as a truly serverless environment that provides code
functions with everything, including state, they need to run and scale. Fermyon
Cloud's NoOps database using SQLite should cover all of these basic use cases
without developers having to install their own database, then find a library to
interact with that database, embed this library into a JavaScript to establish
and secure a connection between code and database. I'm excited," said Torsten
Volk, managing research director at Enterprise Management Associates.
Today Fermyon is also introducing custom domain names, enabling any
Fermyon Cloud customer to bring their own domain to their hosted Fermyon Spin
apps just as they would do with any other serverless offering. Combined with
the database offering, this makes Fermyon Cloud a complete serverless platform.
"With a NoOps database, Fermyon continues to streamline the process of
building and deploying serverless apps. Fermyon Cloud is now a completely
functional serverless offering competing with the likes of Amazon Lambda,
Netlify, Vercel and other serverless products while utilizing a powerful
disruptive technology: WebAssembly. WebAssembly enables us to achieve
sub-millisecond cold starts, sandboxed security and freedom from vendor lock-in
to the serverless market while also delivering the key capabilities the
serverless market expects," said Matt Butcher, co-founder and CEO of
Fermyon.