Last week I attended ServerlessConf SF. This was the 8th and largest ServerlessConf to date with more than 550 attendees. The conference had an effective agenda with a strong slate of talks and an impressive presence of community thought leaders. Kudos to the ACloudGuru team for organizing the event!

Serverless compute services such as AWS Lambda offer many advantages to their customers, most notably the ability to reduce costs and minimise infrastructure. But serverless can also bring trade-offs that give rise to application performance issues.

I’ve seen so many new types of infrastructure technologies impact the performance of the modern data center. All-flash technologies help consolidate systems, virtualization helps to deliver powerful workloads to a variety of users, and even convergence has helped remove legacy from the data center. Most of all, these solutions are all coupled with the cloud to really help an organization become agile and much more efficient.

Among other terms under the umbrella concept of cloud computing, we can find the Serverless technology which we have witnessed its growing popularity in the last three years. In principle, the cloud computing concept covers three levels of service: IaaS, Paas and SaaS.

The age-old approach of storing data on self-hosted data centers is rapidly becoming obsolete, with most organizations shifting towards cloud solutions like Microsoft Azure. Azure delivers more than 600 services like on-demand computing, storage, data management, and networking, and virtual machines (VMs) are an important component of the Azure cloud platform.