Amazon Managed Kafka Aims to Simplify Kafka Streaming Setup and Use

Introduced as a public preview at AWS re:invent 2018, Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) is now generally available. Amazon MSK aims to make it easy to build and run streaming applications based on Kafka.

Dapr Aims to Simplify the Creation of Resilient and Portable Microservices

Microsoft Dapr is an open-source, event-driven framework aimed to build resilient and portable microservices for Cloud and Edge applications. Dapr encapsulates the best practices for building microservices, Microsoft says, and allows developers to focus on the business logic of their application.

Fully-Managed Serverless Platform Google Cloud Run is Now GA

Google Cloud Run is Google’s fully managed solution for running containerized, serverless applications. After a six-month beta phase, Cloud Run is now generally available, along with Cloud Run for Anthos, which enables running your Google Cloud Run application on premises using a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster.

Cloudflare Open-Source Workerd Nanoservice Runtime Now in Beta

Recently open-sourced Cloudflare workerd is a new Web runtime for JavaScript/Wasm applications that shares most of its code with the runtime used by Cloudflare Workers. Workerd is based on standardized Web APIs and aims to enable a new approach to microservices removing their intrinsic latency, says Cloudflare.

Fermyon Built a WebAssembly Cloud to Push Serverless Microservices Beyond Containers

At KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2022, Fermyon launched its microservice-oriented platform for WebAssembly apps, called Fermyon Cloud, which is now available in open beta.