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Section compared to Digital Ocean Functions

Section
Versus
Digital Ocean Functions

Features

Edge Features of Section compared to Digital Ocean Functions
SectionFeaturesDigital Ocean Functions
Functions / Serverless
Not bound by either containers or ‘functions’,Functions supported languagesGo, Javascript, Php, Python
Worker.js Environment
Docker support
Docker private registry
Kubernetes support
Managed Kubernetes
Availability regionsNew York, USA and Frankfurt, Germany
Default Memory (MB)
Maximum Memory (MB)
Execution Time (ms)
Maximum Execution Time (ms)
Request Payload (MB)
Response Payload (MB)
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions

Section

Section.io is one of those great companies that has forseen the future and made sure it’s established it’s name 10 years from now.

Built by developers for developers (api-first, ci/cd etc etc) and integration with BGP routing will ensure you’ll have a smooth experience running your applications practically next to the end-user’s home.

What is so unique about Section is their ability to visualize your cloud application’s flow in internet terms. This gives users a fantastic feel with their applications' whereabouts and performance.

A partnership with Centurylink will guarantee their sucess as a scaleup.

Digital Ocean Functions

Digital Ocean has earned users trust over the many years of service. Founded in 2011, and already traded publically on the New York Stock Exchange since 2021. Digital Ocean has a great blog with many useful articles, which is why they are so well known in the developer community.

Once the underdog, and now David turned Goliath, Digital Ocean offers it all and has truly grown into a major market player when it comes to cloud infrastructure on a global scale.

Digital Ocean Functions offers seamless database integration and offers support for a couple of unique features like unit testing for your Functions. Interestingly Digital Ocean is one of the first Functions providers who are verbal on which version of prograamming language they support. Some programming languages like Python are backward incompatible. DO’s Functions supports Python 3.

Noteworthy customers of Digital Ocean Functions are currently unknown.

Comparisons