The Serverless Panacea… Or Not?

The term “serverless” has become a trendy buzzword: if you don’t have the checkbox ticked, you’re not cool anymore. Really?

Spoiler alert: There may be servers involved in serverless solutions. It’s not just about function-as-a-service. And it’s actually more complicated than it may seem!

But first, let’s come back to the basics: what is serverless exactly, where does it come from, what are its characteristics? Then, beyond the definition, we’ll discuss the challenges, and the risks associated with serverless architectures. Eventually, going further, we’ll think about where serverless is heading in the near future.

1. Serverless: Panacea, Or Not? Guillaume Laforge Google Cloud Developer Advocate @glaforge
2. The Serverless magic potion
3. A bit of history 0
4. Servers
5. The Cloud
6. A serverless datacenter
7. PaaS
8. BaaS
9. λ FaaS
10. CaaS
11. But what is “Serveless”? 1
14. Fully managed Automatic scaling Pay as you go Service based Event driven Stateless OPERATIONAL PROGRAMMING
15. Fully managed Automatic scaling
16. Automatic scaling Pay as you go
17. Service based
18. Event driven
19. Stateless
20. Compute Data Analytics ML & AI Database & Storage Smart assistants & chat DevOps Messaging Serverless, not only compute
21. Serverless, oh the... challenges 2
22. Batteries included
23. Lock-in
24. Cold start
25. Hacks or... provisioned capacity
26. Cost controls
27. Spaghetti microservices
28. What the future holds for Severless? 3
29. Open Source, Open Standards
30. Containerized workloads
31. More glue!
32. Serverless on the edge
33. ML driven serverless platforms
34. ML operated datacenters
35. @glaforge