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A career professional with 19 years of experiences with in application development, solution architecture, management and strategy. Architected, planned, and executed, many programs, projects and solutions delivering valued results to business clients and customers. Able to provide creative solutions to solve problems and articulate the value proposition to upper management and technical design to IT staff. Collaborates across teams and other facet of IT (i.e. operations, infrastructure, security) to validate solutions for completeness. Interface with clients to gather feedback, advise, and solution in the business language.

Sunday, November 6, 2016

Rise of Serverless Functions


Rise of Serverless Functions




Recently I have been to various meetups and conference around Serverless architecture. Lately this architecture has been gaining ground within the IT industry. As IT is seeing a rapid accession up the abstraction curve. Barriers that have existed in the past are dissolving before our eyes. From virtualization, to cloud compute, to containers, now Serverless. Serverless allows developers to deploy functional components of code to a cloud platform for execution. Once the function is complete the resources for that function are relocated for the next process.  The developer’s function is now in a total on demand execution model.

               If leveraged in the right way this becomes an excellent value proposition for particular components of applications. All the developer needs to do is deploy their code, no need to worry about the infrastructure below, scaling, hosting, or any of the other traditional activities needed to deploy your code. The value proposition is you’re only charged for the execution time of your function. Batch services, event base activities, and scheduled join are prime sweet spot for this technology.

               Architecture and developers have to start taking a hard look at their applications to see what pieces of the apps can leverage this technology. Areas in the applications that would potentially have radical spikes because of influx of demands can leverage these functions to offload processing to a background event.

               There are a growing number of players offering services in this space Amazon AWS/Lambda, IBM OpenWhisk/Bluemix, and Microsoft Azure/Azure Functions. So OpenWhisk can be downloaded and ran within your environment. It seems that the greatest value is achieved when IT doesn’t have to be responsible for the underlying resources for particular workloads.

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