Serverless compute and the shift to event driven architectures

Serverless compute has ushered in a new era of application architectures that can focus solely on code and business logic. It also has had drastically both reduced the barrier to entry price wise as well as velocity to launching a scalable globally distributed application or service.

Faster go to market
Lower starting cost
High performance, scalability, and reliability
Security and logical isolation

The paradigm shift

Physical machines => virtual machines => containerized workloads => Serverless

Serverless categories. Compute, storage, application integration

Why serverless?

Elastic scaling
Pay for what you use
No servers to manage
High availability
Additional features with the higher level of abstraction

Focus on business logic

Serverless compute allows you to focus on your business logic and not worry about the underlying infrastructure. Naturally, this unlocks a lot of benefits for developers and businesses alike. Developers become free to focus on the acutal application they are building rather than the infrastructure it runs on and the operational tasks that come with it.

More well rounded developers

With the advent of serverless the line between provisioning and managing infrastructure and writing application code has blurred. Developers are now expected to have a more well rounded skillset that includes both infrastructure and application development. This is a good thing as it allows developers to have a more holistic view of the entire application stack and how it all fits together.

Event driven architecture

Serverless compute is event driven by nature. This is a huge benefit as it allows you to build applications that are more loosely coupled and more resilient to failure. It also allows you to build applications that are more scalable and more cost effective.