Is Serverless Really Less?

Serverless, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) are the new rage. They promise less cost, less hardware, less operations people and less time to market. But is it really less? What is serverless? Is it different than what you are doing today? Is it the right direction and architecture for your business? What are its strengths and weaknesses? How does it impact your development and operations processes? This session will answer all your questions about serverless and help you determine if it an approach worth pursuing.

This session will insure managers and technical leaders have a good knowledge of what serverless is and is not. It will explain the unique challenges and benefits offered by serverless architectures. It will provide insights into the skills and training teams will need to be successful. It will also explain budgeting and and estimating this new model of infrastructure and development.

About Christopher Judd

Christopher Judd is CTO and partner at Manifest Solutions (http://www.manifestcorp.com), an international speaker, Java Champion, an open source evangelist, and the Central Ohio Java Users Group (http://www.cojug.org) leader.  He is an accomplished writer having co-authored Beginning Groovy and Grails (Apress, 2008), Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (Apress, 2003) and Pro Eclipse JST (Apress, 2005) as well as the author of the children’s book “Bearable Moments”.  Based in Columbus Ohio, he has spent over 20 years architecting and developing software for organizations ranging from Fortune 50 companies to start-ups across various industries including insurance, health care, education, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation.  Mr. Judd spends most of his time consulting while continuing to focus on mentoring and training in Java, mobile and related technologies.

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