"Come to our serverless conference and learn how to build your own enterprise class serverless platform blah, blah, blah" ... gosh, it's becoming as bad as Cloud / OpenStack with hordes of johnny come lately thought leaders peddling vendor crack. Time for me to retire on this.
Basic rules on serverless ...
1) Don't build your own, unless you want to waste huge bathtubs of cash on failed efforts.
2) It's not a question of 'if' but 'when' ... you have no choice over this.
1) Don't build your own, unless you want to waste huge bathtubs of cash on failed efforts.
2) It's not a question of 'if' but 'when' ... you have no choice over this.
3) It will lead to new co-evolved practice combining finance + development ... keep an eye open for this.
4) It won't save you money, you'll just do more stuff (see Jevons Paradox)
4) It won't save you money, you'll just do more stuff (see Jevons Paradox)
5) It will lead to faster rates of innovation, new sources of value and higher efficiency.
6) People will have inertia to the change due to past success i.e. keep a careful eye on your IaaS / DevOps crowd.
6) People will have inertia to the change due to past success i.e. keep a careful eye on your IaaS / DevOps crowd.
7) You have a serverless environment in which you code (e.g. Lambda) and consume / create services (e.g. S3) and events. The combination of this creates your architecture which itself maybe more or less "serverless". Expect endless thought leader debates over what terms mean.
8) Given debates over terms, co-evolved practices, vendors flogging home grown solutions ... there will be confusion. Don't hire management consultants - they know nothin' Jon Snow. Send a good chunk of engineers out to conferences and kick start internal projects on Lambda etc.
9) Expect vendor FUD to reach epic levels especially on lock-in, security and blah, blah, blah, containers are the way forward etc. Ignore it. Under certain circumstances (for the time being) you will need to use containers but you really should think of that as a failure.
10) Amazon is ahead in the game, Microsoft 2nd and Google playing catch up. All are fine but stick to the three in Western markets. Expect Larry to declare that Oracle will own / be a big noise in Serverless. Ignore it. He's that drunk great uncle at a wedding.
Ok I've done cloud / serverless / 3d printing / blockchain / open source / ecosystem plays / organisation / anticipation mechanisms / mapping / strategy / nation state competition ... what next? Methinks, it's time to revisit this whole culture question.
... there is much that seems to be outcome bias, an awful lot which appears to be hand waving generalisations and an endless field of sacred cows. Seems it'll be worth spending a year on.
