Episode 28: Serverless as a Consulting Cash Register (now accepting Bitcoin!)
About the Author
Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.
Episode Summary
Is your company thinking about adopting serverless and running with it? Is there a profitable opportunity hidden in it? Ready to go on that journey?
Today, we’re talking to Rowan Udell, who works for Versent, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) consulting partner in Australia. Versent focuses on specific practices, including helping customers with rapid migrations to the Clouds and going serverless.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Australia is experiencing an increase in developers using serverless tool services and serverless being used for operational purposes
Serverless seems to be either a brilliant fit or not quite ready for prime time
Misconceptions include keeping functions warm, setting up scheduled indications
Simon Wardley talked about how the flow of capital can be traced through an organization that has converted to serverless
Concept of paying thousands of dollars up front for a server is going away
Spend whatever you want, but be able to explain where the money is going (dev vs. prod); companies will re-evaluate how things get done
Serverless is either known as an evolution or revolution; transformative to a point
Winding up with a large number of shops where when something breaks, they don’t have the experience to fix it; gain practical experience through sharing
Seek developer feedback and perform testing, but know where and when to stop
With serverless, you have little control of the environment; focus on automated parts you do control
Serverless Movement: People have opinions and want you to know them
Understand continuum of options for running your application in the Cloud; learn pros and cons; and pick the right tool
Reconciliation between serverless and containers will need to play out; changes will come at some point
Blockchain + serverless + machine learning + Kubernetes + service mesh = raise entire seed round
Links:
Rowan Udell’s Blog
Rowan Udell on Twitter
Versent on Twitter
Lambda
Simon Wardley
Open Guide to AWS Slack Channel
Kubernetes
Aurora
Digital Ocean
Episode Show Notes & Transcript
Is your company thinking about adopting serverless and running with it? Is there a profitable opportunity hidden in it? Ready to go on that journey?
Today, we’re talking to Rowan Udell, who works for Versent, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) consulting partner in Australia. Versent focuses on specific practices, including helping customers with rapid migrations to the Clouds and going serverless.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Australia is experiencing an increase in developers using serverless tool services and serverless being used for operational purposes
Serverless seems to be either a brilliant fit or not quite ready for prime time
Misconceptions include keeping functions warm, setting up scheduled indications
Simon Wardley talked about how the flow of capital can be traced through an organization that has converted to serverless
Concept of paying thousands of dollars up front for a server is going away
Spend whatever you want, but be able to explain where the money is going (dev vs. prod); companies will re-evaluate how things get done
Serverless is either known as an evolution or revolution; transformative to a point
Winding up with a large number of shops where when something breaks, they don’t have the experience to fix it; gain practical experience through sharing
Seek developer feedback and perform testing, but know where and when to stop
With serverless, you have little control of the environment; focus on automated parts you do control
Serverless Movement: People have opinions and want you to know them
Understand continuum of options for running your application in the Cloud; learn pros and cons; and pick the right tool
Reconciliation between serverless and containers will need to play out; changes will come at some point