It promises to be the serverless community’s largest get-together to date:  Next October 8 in New York City, for three days, Serverlessconf promises to bring hundreds of cloud-native applications developers together, for in-depth discussions about how the newest concepts in serverless will mesh with the existing developer culture — which is already in flux for other reasons.

“Initially, there was this discussion that maybe serverless is ‘No-ops.’  And it turned out to not be true at all,” admitted Peter Sbarski, who leads the Serverlessconf conferences and is vice president of engineering at A Cloud Guru.  Speaking with Alex Williams for this edition of The New Stack Analysts, Sbarski told us, “When you are deploying functions, you are basically building a large distributed system.  It needs to be managed, organized, looked after.  You need to have monitoring, logging.  You need to know what is going on with the functions, with the third-party services that you consume.  How do you even do a release that makes sense?  How do you release dependencies in the right order?

So there’s a lot to be explained.  Sbarski gets into this topic and other subjects to be covered during Serverlessconf in New York City, with TNS Founder Alex Williams and our contributing analyst, Krishnan Subramanian, in this latest edition of The New Stack Analysts.