Serverless Code with Ryan Scott Brown

The unit of computation has evolved from on premise servers to virtual machines in the cloud to containers running in those virtual machines. Serverless computation is another stage in the evolution of computational unit management. With a serverless architecture, a function call to the cloud spins up a transient container, calls the function on that container, and then spins down the container.

Ryan Scott Brown joins the show today to discuss the benefits and consequences of serverless computing. With containers and VMs, we still have to worry that the resources we are spinning up in the cloud will run without being utilized. Serverless computing gives us more control over these compute resources, so that we don’t have unused servers that we are paying for.