Serverless as a Game Changer: How to Get the Most Out of the Cloud

Serverless as a Game Changer: How to Get the Most Out of the Cloud

by Joseph Emison
Released October 2023
Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 9780137392674

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Book description

Leverage the serverless mindset to build and deploy software faster, better, and with less expense.

In this definitive guide, Joseph Emison shows how to leverage serverless for maximum customer value. He reveals why mindset is crucial to modern IT strategy and explains why and how to move toward a truly serverless mindset.

Many organizations are falling short when it comes to leveraging the cloud. Drawing on his experience as a pioneering CTO across multiple industries, Emison shows why and how you can gain immense business value from the cloud. While many serverless adopters focus on converting and building apps on serverless compute platforms like AWS Lambda, Emison offers better ways to think about your tech stack, optimize build-or-buy decisions, choose the right vendor for each commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) or open-source solution, and draw on the industry's best managed services.

To help you develop a serverless mindset, Emison includes a case study demonstrating a real-world enterprise transition to serverless. The author also provides an exclusive directory of current managed services with focused descriptions and concise explanations of each service and its role in modern application architecture. Many of these services are unfamiliar to enterprise architects, but they are enterprise tested and can radically simplify any serverless transition.

  • Evolve your tech stack and mindset to gain the full benefits of the cloud

  • Deliver software faster, better, and at lower cost with serverless

  • Use serverless architectures and managed services to offload tasks that dont add value

  • Follow a real-world case study taking you from where you are to where you want to be

  • Explore an exclusive managed services directory to find resources to streamline your serverless transition

Transform your mindset and organization by leveraging serverless architecture to change the game and win it.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. About This eBook
  3. Halftitle Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Pearson’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. About the Author
  11. Figure Credits
  12. Part I: The Serverless Mindset
    1. Chapter 1. Introduction
      1. How Many Employees Does It Take to Make and Run a Scalable Social Network?
      2. Leveraging Technology as It Improves
      3. This Book Is For…
      4. This Book Is Not About…
      5. Structure of the Book
      6. References
    2. Chapter 2. The Real Cost of Software Development
      1. Types of Costs
      2. Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting
      3. Code Is a Liability
      4. The Experience Is the Asset
      5. References
    3. Chapter 3. Serverless Architectures
      1. The Amazon Way
      2. What Is Serverless?
      3. Parts of Serverless Applications
      4. References
    4. Chapter 4. Serverless Objections, Serverless Success
      1. Loss of Control
      2. Other Common Objections
      3. Success Stories
      4. It Is Just the Beginning
      5. References
  13. Part II: Real-World Serverless
    1. Chapter 5. Introducing Branch
      1. Serverless from the Start
      2. Organizational Overview
      3. Architectural Overview and Cloud Bill
      4. The Branch Software Development Lifecycle
      5. References
    2. Chapter 6. Introducing Insureco
      1. The History of Insureco
      2. Digital Transformation
      3. Architectural Overview
      4. The Insureco Software Development Lifecycle
      5. Life at Insureco
      6. References
    3. Chapter 7. The Clash of Cultures
      1. The Drivers of the Business Benefits of Technology
      2. How U.S. Insurance Companies Drive Better Outcomes
      3. How Serverless Drives Faster, Better Action
      4. References
  14. Part III: Getting to Serverless
    1. Chapter 8. Getting to Serverless
      1. Winning Hearts and Minds
      2. The Metrics That Matter
      3. Ready to Begin
      4. References
    2. Chapter 9. Iterative Replacement
      1. The Knife-Edge Cutover Doesn’t Work
      2. What Is Iterative Replacement?
      3. Iterative Replacement to Serverless Architectures
      4. References
    3. Chapter 10. Training and Continuing Education
      1. Jobs and People Will Change
      2. Near-Term Job Changes
      3. How to (Re)train Your Workforce
      4. A New Hiring Advantage
      5. References
    4. Chapter 11. Your Serverless Journey
      1. Serverless As a Game Changer
      2. Serverless Steps in Startups
      3. Serverless Steps in Small or Medium-Size Organizations
      4. Serverless Steps in the Enterprise for Executives
      5. Serverless Is the Ultimate Step
  15. Part IV: Appendixes
    1. Appendix A: Directory: API Hubs
      1. What Is an API Hub?
      2. API Hub Directory
      3. AWS AppSync/Amplify
      4. Google Firebase[4]
      5. Fauna[5]/(Netlify[6] or Vercel[7])/Auth0
      6. Supabase[8]
      7. References
    2. Appendix B: Directory: Identity and Access Management
      1. What Does an IAM Managed Service Do?
      2. IAM Directory
      3. Google Firebase Authentication[1]
      4. Auth0[2]
      5. Amazon Cognito[3]
      6. References
    3. Appendix C: Directory: Databases
      1. What Does a Database Managed Service Do?
      2. Database Directory
      3. AWS DynamoDB
      4. Google Firebase and Firestore
      5. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
      6. FaunaDB
      7. CockroachDB Serverless
      8. PlanetScale
      9. Neon and Surreal DB
      10. References
    4. Appendix D: Directory: Functions
      1. What Does Functions Service Do?
      2. Functions Directory
      3. AWS Lambda
      4. Google Functions
      5. Azure Functions
      6. Netlify Functions
      7. Vercel Functions
      8. Cloudflare Workers
    5. Appendix E: Directory: Managed Services
      1. Algolia
      2. Cloudinary
      3. Segment
      4. Customer.io
      5. Lob
      6. Smarty
      7. DocRaptor
      8. Prismic
      9. Flatfile
      10. QuotaGuard
      11. Basis Theory
      12. Upstash
  16. Index

Product information

  • Title: Serverless as a Game Changer: How to Get the Most Out of the Cloud
  • Author(s): Joseph Emison
  • Release date: October 2023
  • Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
  • ISBN: 9780137392674