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The State of Serverless

2021/5/26
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Stephen Pinkerton (@spnktn), Product Manager @datadoghq)) talks about the latest trends that Datadog has observed from monitoring serverless applications in the public cloud, adoption rates, as well as how serverless is deployed along with containers

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  • Datadog State of Serverless Report (2021))
  • Eps.436 - Trends in Serverless (2020))

**Topic 1 - **Welcome back to the show. Before we dive into the latest serverless trends, let’s talk a little bit about your background and focus at Datadog.

**Topic 1a **- This is the 2nd year of the State of Serverless report. Tell us about the scope and the methodology used.

**Topic 2 **- Let’s begin by talking about the growth (by breadth) of the overall Serverless market. Who is using serverless, and where are they consuming it from? 

**Topic 3 **- Your data shows that AWS Lambda is evolving in a couple different ways - both shorter lived usage (average) and involved in a broader set of use-cases (via Step Functions). It sounds like Serverless is becoming more mainstream as it branches out.

**Topic 4 **- Language popularity is always an area of interest - what are the most popular languages for building serverless apps? 

**Topic 5 - Given how granular Lambda billing has become, and how frameworks like Serverless and Step Functions are being used, were you surprised at the low rate of automation around serverless functions? **

**Topic 6 **- This year it seems like Edge use-cases for Serverless have really grown. I’d expect this to continue as we’re seeing both CloudFlare and AWS recently expanding their Serverless edge capabilities within their CDN offerings.

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