The Cloudcast #242 - Understanding Serverless Applications

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 bookfrom 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @EntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow