AWS serverless expert explains what you need to know before launching a serverless pilot. By Joe McKendrick.
The best way to start on a serverless journey is with a serious pilot project that delivers real business benefits and can scale quickly as it shows results. That’s the word from Matt Brayley-Berger, global business development manager for Serverless Compute at Amazon Web Services.
“Digital businesses must innovate as rapidly as possible,” he says. “You need your teams focusing on building applications, and not managing the underlying infrastructure behind them.” Serverless computing is made possible by microservices architectures hosted and managed through the cloud.
The author outlines the best path to take when launching a serverless computing pilot project:
- Set goals
- Recruit team members committed to serverless
- Secure executive buy-in
- Ensure the scope of the pilot is broad enough, but no too broad
- Establish workable metrics
- Include documentation
It’s important for the pilot project to “make sense for the organization and team members, in order to make sure this scales moving forward. Insightful!
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