Achieving vendor choice in a serverless world

by Nicholas Gottlieb

Presented at Functions 2018 / ServerlessDays Toronto

https://functions.events/2018/toronto/nicholas-gottlieb/

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1. Achieving vendor choice in a serverless world ServerlessDays Toronto Achieving vendor choice in a serverless world Nicholas Gottlieb
2. Nicholas Gottlieb nick@serverless.com Current: VP of Growth and founding team at Serverless Inc. Former: First product/growth employee at CircleCI and CircleCI Enterprise product lead DevOps and enterprise cloud strategy consultant
3. What was Serverless in 2016? “auto-scaling function-as-a-service compute, most notably Lambda”
4. What was Serverless in 2017? “FaaS offerings across various cloud platforms as well as other auto-scaling, low configuration managed services”
5. What is Serverless today? “serverless is a software development pattern that focuses on utilizing managed cloud services and SaaS, allowing the developer to focus on the unique business value in their application.”
6. Why is serverless valuable? 1. Speed 2. Efficiency 3. Reduced complexity 4. It’s a serviceful world
7. Why is serverless valuable? 1. Speed 2. Efficiency 3. Reduced complexity 4. It’s a serviceful world
8. Why is serverless valuable? 1. Speed 2. Efficiency 3. Reduced complexity 4. It’s a serviceful world
9. Why is serverless valuable? 1. Speed 2. Efficiency 3. Reduced complexity 4. It’s a serviceful world
10. What is the biggest concern with the serverless pattern?
11. What is the biggest concern with the serverless pattern? Vendor Lock-In
12. How do we mitigate this risk of lock-in and get the most out of serverless?
13. Build a data center? How do we mitigate this risk of lock-in and get the most out of serverless?
14. Build a data center Portability? How do we mitigate this risk of lock-in and get the most out of serverless?
15. Build a data center Portability Vendor choice How do we mitigate this risk of lock-in and get the most out of serverless?
16. What is vendor choice? “the capability to choose the proper tools and vendors to address the use case and solve the problem you’re working one”
17. Why is vendor choice valuable? 1. Right tool for the job 2. Developer ownership and morale 3. Agility
18. Why is vendor choice valuable? 1. Right tool for the job 2. Developer ownership and morale 3. Agility
19. Why is vendor choice valuable? 1. Right tool for the job 2. Developer ownership and morale 3. Agility
20. So how do we go about achieving vendor choice in a serverless world?
21. How to achieve vendor choice Build a culture that values choice, experimentation, and ownership.
22. How to achieve vendor choice Adopt tooling the helps with choice.
23. How to achieve vendor choice Strive for data portability
24. How to achieve vendor choice Event sourcing
25. In Summary “serverless is all about utilizing managed services to move fast. Vendor choice lets us do the the risks of lock-in and remaining flexibe”
26. Achieving vendor choice in a serverless world ServerlessDays Toronto Thanks. nick@serverless.com @worldsoup