DigitalOcean acquires serverless platform provider Nimbella

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc., the cloud for developers, startups and SMBs, has acquired Nimbella, a serverless platform provider. This comes after an additional serverless compute to support the company’s existing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

Serverless computing removes the operational complexity in cloud-native environments for application developers as they create new applications and APIs or modernize existing ones for their companies.

It allows rapid development and deployment, allowing businesses to significantly reduce development costs and increase productivity without sacrificing performance to support their use case.

“Serverless computing is the next evolution of cloud that further removes the need for developers to manage complex infrastructure. We are excited to have Nimbella join DigitalOcean to address specific needs often requested by our customers and fills a gap in the current offerings in the market,” Yancey Spruill, CEO at DigitalOcean, said.

Nimbella was designed specifically to address the challenges developers face in adopting serverless computing. Nimbella builds on Kubernetes and Apache OpenWhisk, both of which are mature production-ready open source projects.