are we ready for serverless

Are We Ready for Serverless

Subbu Allamaraju

Container World | Feb 27, 2018 | Santa Clara, CA

@sallamar

https://www.subbu.org

More than 50% of

compute may be

stateless

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Observation

Hypothesis

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Most of stateless is a

candidate for some

kind of serverless

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Hypothesis

Most of state is

moving to managed

cloud services

Capacity demand

Desired capacity

Actual allocated capacity + additional DR capacity?

A dream from 2011

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Reality in 2018

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A few billion lambda invocations per month

What about state?

S3, Glacier, Aurora,

Elasticache, RDS,

Redshift, DynamoDB,

Neptune, Athena,

ElasticSearch Service,

Quicksight, EMR,

Kinesis, Data Pipeline,

CloudSearch, Redshift,

SQS, SNS, MQ, …

BigQuery, Cloud

Dataflow, Cloud

Dataproc, Cloud

Datalab, Cloud

Dataprep, Cloud

Pub/Sub, Data Studio,

Cloud SQL, Cloud

Bigtable, Cloud

Spanner, Cloud

Datastore, …

Queue Storage, Blob

Storage, Notification

Hubs, Search, SQL

Database, SQL Data

Warehouse, SQL Server

Stretch Database,

Cosmos DB, Redis

Cache, Table Storage,

HDInsight, SQL Data

Warehouse, Event Hubs,

…

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Container ecosystem may

or may not play a role

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Hypothesis

Are we really ready?

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Not suitable for long-running

appsExpensive

Lock-in

Slow on cold start

No local storage

More complex call patterns

Unknown security risks

No standards

Observability is hard?

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Habits and inertia

Stateless isn’t always

stateless

Ephemeral isn’t

always ephemeral

Often pet like

?

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Fear of the ecosystem

Lock-in worries

Undifferentiated heavy

lifting vs Value

generation?

?

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Maturity

Feature gaps

Pricing

Tomorrow != Today

Tooling?

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Embrace the paradigm

Learn

Get ready

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