The year is 2020 and you are responsible for ensuring the efficient and reliable operations of millions of dollars of cloud computing infrastructure. Things have changed a lot in the past few years, even more so from the days when you first moved from on-premise and into AWS.

Serverless is often described as the abstraction to end all abstractions. VMs and standalone containers pale in comparison stateless functions. That pristine distinction between the application’s code and its stateful data is something we all dream of. Scalability, observability and high availability can now be realized on a global scale.

We all know the latest trend in today’s technology and how Machine Learning is changing the way business decisions are made. Machine learning replaces old manual repeatable processes and provides the systems the ability to get into a mode of self-learning without being explicitly programmed.

Since a book series called “… for Dummies” was launched, people have finally come to realize how much they don’t know about the particular area they thought they previously knew about. We’ve all started from somewhere. Self-learning, learning at school or even in the office at our jobs. A breakthrough was achieved when we realized that something absolutely strange to us, became quite familiar.

Building a serverless application means you usually trade in old issues for new ones. This is an attempt to create a decision framework and break down arguments for and against using serverless vs. other computing models.

Handling large images has always been a pain in my side since I started writing code. Lately, it has started to have a huge impact on page speed and SEO ranking. If your website has poorly optimized images it won’t score well on Google Lighthouse. If it doesn’t score well, it won’t be on the first page of Google. That sucks.

While working for Dashbird.io I’ve had to pleasure to come in contact with a number of serverless early adopters that included both small companies working on apps or just testing ideas as well as fortune 500 companies with an already established user base. What I’ve found is that a lot the people I speak to think of serverless as a shortcut to developing software but that’s just not the case.