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You can’t pick a technical direction without considering the business implications. Mat Ellis, Founder/CEO of Cloudability, in a recent CloudCast episode, makes the business case for Serverless. The argument goes something like: Enterprises know they can’t run services cheaper than Amazon. Even if the cost is 2x the extra agility of the cloud is often worth the multiple. So enterprises are moving to the cloud. Moving to the cloud is a move to services. How do you build services now? Using Serverless. With services businesses use a familiar cost per unit billing model, they can think of paying for services as a cost per database query, cost per terabyte of data, and so on. Since employees are no longer managing[…]

Key Takeaways Serverless compute, or Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS), will be transformational in our industry – organizations that embrace it will have a competitive advantage because of the cost, labor and time-to-market advantages it brings Many Serverless applications will combine FaaS functions with significant use of other vendor-provided services that provide pre-managed functionality and state management Tooling will significantly improve, especially in the area of deployment and configuration Patterns of good Serverless architecture will emerge – it’s too soon to know what they are now Organizations will need to embrace the ideas of ‘true’ DevOps and autonomous, self-sufficient, product teams to reap the full time-to-market benefits that Serverless can offer Source: The Future of Serverless Compute

Open alternatives to AWS’s serverless computing framework are emerging from vendors like Platform9, which sees lock-in as a major problem. Source: Will Lock-In Fears Scare Clients Away from AWS Lambda Serverless Computing? | Technologies content from MSPmentor

For a couple of decades, we’ve known about SaaS (Software as a Service.)  And more recently companies like Rackspace.com have driven PaaS (Platform as a Service.) (There is also BaaS…) The cloud beckons to businesses, trying to reduce and secure enterprise architectures. So what’s new in all of that? Enter FaaS – which is “Function as a Service.” Since 2012 or so, Amazon Web Services has been leading the way, Google Hosted Services is catching up. And Microsoft is pushing Azure aggressively. Source: FaaS – Getting Used to the Cloud Enterprise – Web Presence Consulting

Imagine you are interviewing some guy for an IT role and she says that he doesn’t get that of “going to the cloud because everybody knows there are no datacenters in the sky”. Everybody knows that cloud in cloud computing is just a name. However, it’s surprising how many people have a similar idea. You chat with someone in IT about “serverless” and she says something like “Serverless doesn’t make any sense. Code has to run on a server”. I understand technology changes a lot. Sometimes names are not very transparent. And we cannot chase the latest buzzword. Many companies/organisations were still dealing with virtualisation when the cloud came. Then without pause, containers seemed to be the hottest thing. Source:[…]