2 years ago

This is part of a series of contributed articles leading up to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon on Oct. 24-28. Serverless application stacks have been stuck in a conundrum: Most applications need some kind of state store, but most state stores aren’t serverless.

Resolving the dilemma between scaling vs. starting when building a stateful, ground-up serverless application requires a serverless distributed database with true “scale to zero” capability.

The first to deliver the ability to build fully stateful applications in a fully serverless way was CockroachDB Serverless. Building fully stateful serverless applications require a new approach to your application stack, and so today we introduce the CAKE stack.