{"id":4506,"date":"2017-07-05T21:37:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T21:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2017-07-10T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T10:58:08","slug":"why-serverless-inc-is-crushing-it-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/why-serverless-inc-is-crushing-it-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Serverless, Inc is crushing it right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/x-YTECPX2ShffYPiXbwDTmy4mkLN0q2d4wyLT0rqFsifGeWKaQUPOjca7mbRm16xNsUm-Rp_GKv0zkYFs9t5Xq_prTYdq0ZcP3cOaCTY5ZeRSS8u1lI1Meuh3GMe9fPeI5ZDoM3D\" width=\"624\" height=\"624\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Serverless apps are\u00a0auto-scaling, pay-per-execution, and event-driven. I wrote a post recently looking at the the growth of interest in serverless frameworks, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2017\/06\/16\/so-about-openwhisk-progress-whats-up-with-serverless-frameworks\/\">specific question in mind about OpenWhisk<\/a>. But as the chart above (which was actually at the bottom of that post) shows, interest in the <a href=\"https:\/\/serverless.com\/\">Serverless<\/a> framework, as least as far as GitHub stars is concerned, is skyrocketing.<\/p>\n<p>Serverless was founded by Austen Collins. He\u2019s friendly, tending to super-nice, approachable, and a great story-teller. He has an intriguing background for a technologist, having worked in script-writing (for reality TV!) in Hollywood, which explains the polish of his communications. You definitely want him to talk at your conference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div id=\"93587170-c271-417f-bf75-d21e774b1ea6\" class=\"postBody\" contenteditable=\"true\">\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' width='640' height='360' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6mNhMuBkIK8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;' sandbox='allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>it also helps to own <a href=\"https:\/\/serverless.com\/\">Serverless.com<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So why is Serverless framework catching so much attention right now? Serverless computing, or Function-as-a-Service, is hot, for one, but essentially It comes down to developer experience. Serverless solves a specific problem, which most developers using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda run into- while it\u2019s super easy to get started creating your first function and API, once you get beyond that, with more services to manage, AWS <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/api-gateway\/\">API Gateway<\/a> is a pain.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/serverless.com\/blog\/why-we-switched-from-docker-to-serverless\/\">experience of ShoutOUT<\/a> is pretty common.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrior to integration with the Serverless Framework, we had to do a lot of manual configuration on API Gateway and Lambda and deploying multiple services was really painful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Serverless CLI, on the other hand, makes it easy to deploy additional services to production, and rollback if necessary, without a bunch of manual configuration steps. Written in Node.js it\u2019s simple to get started with an npm install. Languages supported so far are Javascript (the Node.js framework), Java and Python.<\/p>\n<p>Serverless.yml define functions and event sources that trigger them, as well as any other resources to be used. This manifest creates a single AWS <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/cloudformation\/\">CloudFormation<\/a> template that then deploys the service. Other Serverless constructs include handlers, which are pointers to functions or events.<\/p>\n<p>While Serverless began as an AWS only framework it also now supports Apache OpenWhisk, which underpins IBM\u2019s serverless implementation for Bluemix. Red Hat also recently announced it would adopt OpenWhisk for OpenShift. See my post above for more details. Serverless is also building Microsoft Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions support<\/p>\n<p>Some nice early enterprises wins include Reuters and Coca-Cola. Patrick Brandt, Solutions Architect at Coca-Cola is on the record thus:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThe Serverless Framework is a core component of The Coca-Cola Company&#8217;s initiative to reduce IT operational costs and deploy services faster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October 2016 Serverless <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/12\/serverless-raises-3m-to-help-developers-go-serverless\/\">raised $3m from Trinity Ventures and Heavybit<\/a>. The Heavybit imprimatur for companies that focus on developer experience is impressive- previous investments include <a href=\"https:\/\/stripe.com\/\">Stripe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pagerduty.com\/\">PagerDuty<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/circleci.com\/\">CircleCI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>if you&#8217;re interested in serverless technology you should join us at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffconf\">Jeffconf<\/a> this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related posts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2016\/07\/01\/the-serverless-economy-why-you-should-care-about-serverless\/\">The Serverless Economy, why you should care about serverless<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2017\/04\/26\/lambda-kicks-in-a-serverless-world-made-of-messages\/\">Lambda kicks in, a serverless world made of messages<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2017\/06\/02\/serverless-and-the-the-death-of-devops-can-you-not\/\">\u201cServerless and the the death of devops\u201d. Can you not?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Travis CI is a client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serverless apps are\u00a0auto-scaling, pay-per-execution, and event-driven. I wrote a post recently looking at the the growth of interest in serverless frameworks, with a specific question in mind about OpenWhisk. But as the chart above (which was actually at the bottom of that post) shows, interest in the Serverless framework, as least as far as GitHub<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-1aG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}