Serverless Functions

I'd like to be able to set a custom domain to my Function without having to put it through a load balancer or droplet.

Deno is a next gen runtime for JavaScript (and TypeScript) ideal for scripting and serverless. It has little overhead, and imports modules directly by url (stores them in a local cache) meaning that no node_modules folder is needed, not a vendor bundle. The initial support for Deno functions could be to provide the runtime and share the module/dependency cache between the runs. For DO to save in bandwidth further on, would be to cache public external urls globally for Deno Functions, and private (behind auth) urls only for the function itself. Another thing to consider would be the initial caching of the ts->js transpilation, but this could be a one time deno cache call.

the limit for function are not sufficient for image manipulation of high res images. a minimum of 2GB and 30 seconds is required. for sure other use cased would require higher limits as well.

I think serverless functions should support a built executable artifacts or entire container images instead of requiring source code.

Rust is often called one of the most 'energy efficient' programming languages. Benchmarks of serverless applications on various cloud platforms showed that Rust beats other languages in terms of the cold start time (<200ms) and execution time due to the low-level nature. This allows developers to create fast and computationally intensive applications in serverless architecture and gives users a better experience by eliminating a "cold start problem". It would be awesome if DigitalOcean adopted this programming language in their products!

to trigger file processing upon completion of an upload. AWS supports this with S3 events and SNS/lambda, and GCP has this with a Cloud Storage trigger to Cloud functions. as also requested here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/will-spaces-have-file-events-that-can-trigger-functions

should be able to invoke functions locally without deploying to speed up development time and allow for doing work when not connected to the internet.

When deploying Functions from local machine using `` doctl serverless . --remote-build `` There is a max 2 minutes timeout, which may not be enough for several Functions and/or more complex Function being deployed. An error is received: `` Error: While deploying action 'app/transcribe' (running remote build): The function exceeded its time limits of 120000 milliseconds. `` Trying to workaround this using the 'watch' flag in the doctl command is useless, as it is not incremental as it should, besides, not always you want a real-time incremental deployment anyway. A manual deployment must not fail due to arbitrary timeout while the actual deployment of the Function on the servers are still in progress.

I would like to allow my function to talk to a database secured behind a VPC, but for whatever reason VPC does not seem to allow Function assignment to the network. Exposing my database to a public IP does not seem like a good option here.

If a managed database has connections restricted to trusted sources, it is not possible to connect to it from serverless functions deployed to namespaces (outside the App Platform). Consider adding an ability to specify a function, package, or namespace in the list of trusted sources of a database.