cover of episode The Cloudcast #242 - Understanding Serverless Applications

The Cloudcast #242 - Understanding Serverless Applications

2016/3/11
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Aaron and Brian talk with Joe Emison (@JoeEmison; Founder and Chief Technology Officer @ BuildFax) about building a digital business, the challenges of platforms, and why he’s moving more applications to serverless computing.

Show Links:

  • This show sponsored byIntel Cloud For All)

  • Get a free book)from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books

  • Joe’s Company - BuildFax)

  • Joe’s writings - The New Stack)

  • Why AWS isn’t Winning and it Poses Problems)

  • Joe’s Blog - InformationWeek)

  • Building Serverless Applications - Interop 2016)

Serverless References:

  • AWS Lambda
)

  • IBM OpenWhisk
)

  • Google Functions)


  • Serverless Code) - Ryan Brown

  • Serverless Framework) (open source)


  • WebTask)


  • StackHut)

Topic 1 - Let’s talk about your background. We like to have builders on the show, but you actually help real builders.

Topic 2 - You’re giving a 4hr talk at Interop in May about “Building Serverless Applications”. Let’s start with the basics of Serverless - why does it exist, what problem does it fix? what is it, what does it do?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about some of the existing serverless “services” out there and how they work. What works, work needs to evolve, how do they work with other services?

Topic 4 - Does software exist today to have these serverless capabilities on-premises, or is this just a public cloud capability today?

Topic 5 - You mentioned in a Twitter thread earlier this week that there are multiple services that are “better than AWS Lambda today”. Can you elaborate on that a little bit?