World Congress 2022 Jun 15, 2022

Serverless landscape beyond functions

Mete Atamel

Still think serverless is limited to short-lived functions and basic HTTP triggers? Discover how modern container-first ecosystems eliminate cold starts and seamlessly orchestrate complex microservices.

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#1 about 4 min

Defining serverless and its evolutionary phases

An overview of serverless operational models and the historical phases of serverless technology adoption.

#2 about 3 min

Early managed infrastructure with Google App Engine

How initial platform-as-a-service offerings paved the way for modern, fully managed cloud architectures.

#3 about 5 min

The rise and constraints of initial serverless functions

The introduction of function-as-a-service platforms and their early limitations around concurrency, triggers, and execution duration.

#4 about 8 min

Integrating containers to solve serverless execution limitations

Using container-based serverless runtimes to abstract infrastructure requirements while fixing concurrency constraints and performance bottlenecks.

#5 about 4 min

Connecting distributed services through choreography and orchestration

Comparing event-driven communication with external orchestrators for decoupling and monitoring independent cloud microservices.

#6 about 5 min

Cloud tools for event routing and service orchestration

Utilizing platform-specific cloud utilities to sequentially trigger and route multistep workflows across external application components.

#7 about 3 min

Augmenting serverless workflows with traditional virtual machines

Expanding workload capabilities by scheduling serverless orchestrators to manage long-running compute tasks on automated virtual instances.

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