For the Love of Serverless: Predictions from Sheen Brisals of The LEGO Group
Blog post from New Relic
Serverless architecture has been gaining traction among development teams due to its agility, scalability, and efficiency, with a significant increase in adoption reported by companies like New Relic and Forrester. The "For the Love of Serverless: 2020 AWS Lambda Benchmark Report" aims to provide insights and benchmarks on this technology, highlighting conversations with industry experts such as Sheen Brisals from The LEGO Group. Brisals discusses the organizational challenges of shifting to serverless, such as the difficulty in direct cost comparisons with traditional systems and the complexities surrounding support solutions like monitoring. He also addresses technical challenges like tooling inconsistencies and the confusion stemming from multiple service offerings. The future of serverless appears event-driven, with Amazon EventBridge playing a central role, and the community is moving toward understanding the deeper reasons for adopting serverless beyond its basic definition. Despite the perceived cost benefits and concerns over vendor lock-in, the technology offers broader organizational advantages, and myths like "serverless makes you debt-free" and "Lambda functions solve all problems" are being debunked by experts in the field.