For the Love of Serverless: Brian LeRoux of Begin

Serverless technology is gaining traction but remains in its early stages, as highlighted by Brian LeRoux of Begin, who points out the challenges and opportunities in its adoption. While the concept of serverless computing—outsourcing commoditized workloads to focus on core business value—promises a future of reduced ownership costs, its current state is marked by varied capabilities across cloud vendors like AWS and Azure. AWS faces hurdles with file size limitations and SQL database support, whereas Azure needs to enhance network ease for frontend developers and improve its Infrastructure as Code capabilities. LeRoux is particularly excited about the potential of Deno, an experimental JavaScript runtime that could advance serverless web development. Despite the enthusiasm around serverless, the industry is navigating a phase of disillusionment, with expectations needing to be tempered and technical challenges still to be addressed.