Episode 28: Serverless as a Consulting Cash Register (now accepting Bitcoin!)

Published: Sept. 19, 2018, 6 a.m.

b'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? \\nToday, we\\u2019re 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.\\nSome of the highlights of the show include:\\n\\nAustralia is experiencing an increase in developers using serverless tool services and serverless being used for operational purposes\\nServerless seems to be either a brilliant fit or not quite ready for prime time\\nMisconceptions include keeping functions warm, setting up scheduled indications\\nSimon Wardley talked about how the flow of capital can be traced through an organization that has converted to serverless\\nConcept of paying thousands of dollars up front for a server is going away\\nSpend whatever you want, but be able to explain where the money is going (dev vs. prod); companies will re-evaluate how things get done\\nServerless is either known as an evolution or revolution; transformative to a point\\nWinding up with a large number of shops where when something breaks, they don\\u2019t have the experience to fix it; gain practical experience through sharing\\nSeek developer feedback and perform testing, but know where and when to stop\\nWith serverless, you have little control of the environment; focus on automated parts you do control\\nServerless Movement: People have opinions and want you to know them\\nUnderstand continuum of options for running your application in the Cloud; learn pros and cons; and pick the right tool\\nReconciliation between serverless and containers will need to play out; changes will come at some point\\nBlockchain + serverless + machine learning + Kubernetes + service mesh = raise entire seed round\\n\\nLinks:\\n\\nRowan Udell\\u2019s Blog\\nRowan Udell on Twitter\\nVersent on Twitter\\nLambda\\nSimon Wardley\\nOpen Guide to AWS Slack Channel\\nKubernetes\\nAurora\\nDigital Ocean'