Cloud computing, 2020 style: serverless on a learning curve
Summary
A serverless approach is appealing "due to the limited amount of staff and talent available to build, manage, and maintain the new generation of digital systems. For a number of organizations, serverless computing is still very much a work in progress, with many still not seeing outright benefits, a recent survey shows. Four in 10 enterprises have adopted serverless technologies, but positive impacts take some time to realize, the survey of 1,500 executives from OReilly shows. "That makes sense: with serverless being relatively young, formal training is difficult to find, specific documentation must be generated, and case studies to learn from—while growing—are harder to come by," the surveys authors -- Roger Magoulas and Chris Guzikowski -- indicate. "Testing is more complex and labor intensive for serverless architectures, with more scenarios to address and different types of dependencies -- latency, startup, mocking -- changing the integration landscape," Magoulas and Chris Guzikowski state.