DigitalOcean Embraces Serverless Computing
Some developers want complete control over their cloud infrastructure. They don't mind managing cloud servers and administering databases.
Other developers want to focus on the product, leaving the nitty-gritty infrastructure management to someone else. DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) offers both options. The tech company's Droplets are full-blown virtual servers, while its App Platform allows developers to upload application code and scale resources quickly and easily without needing to touch the underlying infrastructure.
The App Platform is convenient, but it still requires developers to write full backend server applications, the same applications that would otherwise be running on a Droplet. What DigitalOcean lacks is a serverless computing product. With serverless computing, developers can write individual chunks of code that perform specific actions, and each piece of code can scale independently. There's no server application, just a collection of cloud functions.
Source Fool.com
