Predictions

It’s apparent that Serverless tools and platforms will mature significantly. We’re still on the “bleeding edge” of many of these technologies. Deployment and configuration will become far easier, we’ll have great monitoring tools for understanding what is happening across components, and the platforms will provide greater flexibility.

As an industry, we’ll also collectively learn how to use these technologies. Ask five different teams today how to build and operate a moderately complex Serverless application, and you’ll get five different answers. As we gain experience, we’ll see some ideas and patterns form about what “good practice” looks like in common situations.

Our final prediction is that companies will change how they work in order to make the most of Serverless. As we said in Chapter 3, “With the right organizational support, innovation…can become the default way of working for all businesses.” Those first five words are key—engineering teams need autonomy in order to exploit the lead time and experimentation advantages of Serverless. Teams gain this autonomy by having true product ownership and an ability to develop, deploy, and iterate on new applications without having to wait on process roadblocks. Organizations that can manage themselves like this, while still maintaining budgetary and data safety, will find that their engineers are able to grow and be more effective by forming a deep understanding of what makes their customers awesome.

We give a more in-depth analysis of future trends in Serverless in our article, “The Future of Serverless Compute”.

Conclusion

The goal of this report was to answer the question,“Is Serverless the right choice for you and your team?” For those of you who have, or can, embrace the public cloud; who have a desire to embrace experimentation as the way to produce the best product; and who are willing to roll up your sleeves and deal with a little lack of polish in your tools, we hope you’ll agree with us that the answer is “yes.”

Your next step is to jump in! Evaluating Serverless technology doesn’t require an enormous investment of money or time, and most providers have a generous free tier of services. We provide a wealth of information and resources on our Symphonia website and blog, and we’d be excited to hear from you!