We discuss the foundational traits of serverless computing, including scaling and provisioning, cost precision, high availabilty and more. We also look at what Mike considers to be the main benefits of serverless, from costs based upon specific usage to faster time to market. Enterprises can now build entirely new products in hours or days because so much of the inherent complexity has now been commoditized by the vendors.

We also look at how large enterprises can get started down the serverless path. Once your organization is consuming some amount of public cloud, it’s easy to get your feet wet slowly. It’s low commitment and low cost to try the technology out in areas of your ecosystem that aren’t mission critical. Enterprises that want to leverage serverless technology should embrace visibility and monitoring, autonomy and automation.