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Achieve process efficiencies, lower costs and accelerate time to market through Serverless computing
Computing has evolved with time to meet the burgeoning market demands, and the increasing technology adoption made it effective in addressing many of the new-age business challenges.
Traditionally, businesses relied heavily on servers for their IT computing requirements. Though this solution offered the required support, that did not prove to be cost-effective and caused additional costs.
This eventually widened the capital expenditure as a means to address the maintenance demands of the underlying infrastructure. Thus, maintenance of critical IT hardware, majorly the server infrastructure remained a key pain point for organizations.
Traditional cloud computing relieved this infrastructure burden to some extent by enabling transition to web-based architecture. But the ‘Serverless Computing’ is trying to make the job complete presenting the future of cloud computing.
Traditional cloud environment keeps resources dedicated, irrespective of their requirement and complete usage in a specific environment or a function.
Whereas, serverless computing provides the required set of resources exactly for that specific request from a specific application. In a serverless environment, resource allocation can happen dynamically, but is purely on-demand and billed under the ‘pay-as-you-go' model.
Offering advanced benefits like multi-cloud support, serverless computing proved to be an effective solution for many reasons, especially cutting down maintenance costs, enhancing functionality and driving delivery speeds.
Traditional cloud computing brought a strategic shift from legacy server architecture to web-based server architecture, while the next big thing i.e., ‘serverless architecture’ is changing the game all together.
There is a misinterpretation around the serverless architecture terming that as the ‘world without servers’. But that’s actually not the case!
Serverless architecture is a game changer for its ability to create a room for different teams to focus on their core activities and alleviate the hardware maintenance and computing management burden.
Serverless computing merely shifts server provisioning and computing management away from developers or operations (DevOps teams), and handing it over to cloud providers. This gives enough room for developers to focus on their core areas of building and new deployments.
While the current public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model involves the server management by cloud service providers away from end users, serverless computing takes a step further by executing developer codes with appropriate resource usage, saving time and costs.
As and when a pre-defined event triggers a code, the serverless platform executes it without requiring the end-user to tell it every time at the occurrence of a similar function. For this reason, serverless computing is popularly termed as ‘Function as a Service (FaaS)’ model or event-driven model.
Serverless computing enjoys high prevalence in many modern-day use cases, one being the Internet of Things (IoT) environment, where real-time responses are very crucial and on large scale.
Leading global surveys predict a continuous rise in serverless computing adoption with each passing year. According to Gartner analysis, 20 percent of the organizations globally have moved to serverless computing by 2020.
While the organizations that have already adopted serverless computing report a rise in their business agility, cost savings and many operational advantages.
Experts say that the industry is yet to tap the full potential of serverless computing, while its core supporting models like GitOps and FaaS are still in their early stages of adoption.
The core potential of serverless computing is expected to start unfolding with the rise in adoption of the aforementioned highly-potential models.
Serverless computing and virtual server models have begun to transform the computing landscape right in their nascent stage and are going to bring in major transformation in the years to come.
Here are some of the emerging trends around ‘serverless’ that the whole industry is watching closely:
There are many other prospects unfolding around serverless trend to make it the future cloud architecture.
Serverless architecture offers the ability to avoid hassles associated with the development and management of server-bound applications, which usually demand complex application stacks.
It provides due scope for agile application development by allowing large set of capabilities and ability to run them at scale.
The industry already knows what it means in building own servers and their maintenance. Definitely, high and additional costs! Serverless architecture provides cost advantage by reducing capex associated with physical servers. They also reduce the dependence on human resource which is highly required for batch processing.
From minimal application-specific developments to isolating and addressing issues, serverless computing does most things for you around deploying, managing and other crucial aspects of application lifecycle.
Serverless architecture also gives microservices advantage. Surveys show serverless microservices adoption can bring down release cycles from 60 days to just 15 days. Serverless microservices computing also gives enough flexibility in data processing.
Organizations can easily get away with hassles in traditional workflows with the help of event-based computing that serverless computing architecture facilitates.
Serverless computing also contributes to climate change efforts by pitching for green computing.
Overall, by taking away the backend maintenance and management burden, serverless environment allows the teams to focus on their core functions and new offerings for a win-win situation.
List not exhaustive, there are many such benefits that serverless computing environment can offer you. Want to witness these for your organization? Get in touch, Bourntec can help you!
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