The Cloudcast #317 - The State of the Serverless Ecosystem

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - You’ve been heavily involved in Serverless since the very days, working on things like the ServerlessCode site as a side project. How are you seeing the community evolve?

• The DevOps crowd was there

Lots of “is it NoOps or Not?” discussions

• Nobody is actually NoOps. There’s a common understanding (underlined by people like Charity Majors) that someone in your org is always responsible for stuff working, or else you die. 
• DiffOps is one term that encompasses the “you have responsibility, but one of your responsibilities is to farm out as much as is reasonable to your provider” 

Any viable open-source elements emerging?

• Lots of toy-ish “oh you can run FaaS on k8s” around, but when you get serious: 
• Serverless Framework/Zappa/Sparta/Apex 
• OpenWhisk 

Some VC funding, but nothing massive yet

• IOPipe raised at least one round 
• Serverless has a spot in the HeavyBit, and some funding 
• Stackery has about 2 million in funding 
• The real “VC’s” in serverless tooling are the cloud mega-providers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google) and the biggest teams I know of are all subteams there 

How many customers vs. vendors at the event?

• Basically 2x the first ServerlessConf, up to 450/460 attendees 

Topic 2 - You gave a talk called “Harmonizing Serverless and Traditional Applications“. Outside of greenfield companies, that seems to be the common questions that companies are asking. What topics did you cover in your talk?