Spotlight on adopting serverless technologies

According to Gartner, “By 2022, most Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings will evolve to a fundamentally serverless model, rendering the cloud platform architectures dominant in 2017 as legacy architectures.” Serverless is one of the hottest technologies in the cloud space today. The Serverless Summit organised on October 27 in Bengaluru by CodeOps Technologies put a spotlight on serverless technologies. The conference helped bring together people who are passionate about learning and adopting serverless technologies in their organisations. With speakers from three different continents and

250 participants from all over India, the event was a wonderful confluence of experts, architects, developers, DevOps, practitioners, CXOs and enthusiasts.

The highlight of the conference was the keynote by John Willis (of ‘The DevOps Handbook’ fame) who travelled all the way from the US for the event. He talked about ‘DevOps in a Serverless World’ covering the best practices and how they manifest in a serverless environment. He also conducted a post-conference workshop on DevOps principles and practices.

Serverless technology is an interesting shift in the architecture of digital solutions, where there is a convergence of serverless architecture, containers, microservices, events and APIs in the delivery of modular, flexible and dynamic solutions. This is what Gartner calls the ‘Mesh App and Services Architecture’ (or MASA, for short). With that theme, there were sessions on serverless frameworks and platforms like the open source Fn platform and Kubernetes frameworks (especially Fission), Adobe’s I/O runtime, and Microsoft’s Azure platform.

Serverless technology applications covered at the event included sessions like ‘Serverless and IoT (Internet of Things) devices’, ‘Serverless and Blockchain’, etc. The hands-on sessions included building chatbots and artificial intelligence (AI) applications with serverless architectures. The conference ended with an interesting panel discussion between Anand Gothe (Prowareness), Noora (Euromonitor), John Willis (SJ Technologies), Sandeep Alur (Microsoft) and Vidyasagar Machupalli (IBM).

Open Source For You (OSFY) was the media partner and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) was the community partner for the conference.