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

Some organizations are gaining immense business value from the cloud, just as promised – but many are falling short. This book reveals why, and helps you get your tech stack and mindset right, so you can deliver software faster, better, at lower cost. Drawing on his experience as a pioneering CTO helping to revolutionize the insurance industry, Joseph Emison shows how to leverage "serverless" to change the game—and win it. Many serverless adopters are focusing on converting apps for AWS Lambda, but Emison''s approach is more all-encompassing, and offers greater promise. Emison presents better ways to think about your tech stack, optimize build-or-buy decisions, choose the right vendor for each COTS or open-source solution, and draw on the industry''s best managed services. Emison has written the definitive guide to leveraging "serverless" for maximum customer value. He reveals why "mindset" is so crucial to modern IT strategy, explains why and how to move towards a truly serverless mindset, and walks through the creation of a real-world serverless enterprise. Emison concludes with an exclusive directory of current managed services that enable the serverless mindset, with focused descriptions of each service, and concise explanations of its role in modern application architecture. Many of these offerings are unfamiliar to enterprise architects—but they''re working in production, and can radically simplify any serverless transition.