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Defining Serverless — Part 3

This is Part 3 of a series defining Serverless Services in terms of five common traits, which John Chapin and I introduced in our free ebook from O’Reilly — What is Serverless?

Defining Serverless — Part 2

This is Part 2 of a series defining Serverless Services in terms of five common traits, which John Chapin and I introduced in our free ebook from O’Reilly — What is Serverless?

Defining Serverless — Part 1

In case you’re new to my articles: Serverless Architecture is a new approach to building systems in the cloud. It incorporates Backends-as-a-Service (BaaS) — vendor-hosted, highly scalable, data and logic components to handle our needs for databases, messaging platforms, user management, and more.

What is Serverless?

Our mission at Symphonia is to bring the benefits of Serverless computing to our clients, and the industry. But what is Serverless? In this free e-book that we’ve produced in collaboration with O’Reilly, we explain what Serverless means and what its significant benefits are.

Podcast Interview with Stelligent

Mike and John chatted with our friends at Stelligent — Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich as part of their DevOps in AWS Radio podcast series. We covered a lot in this conversation!

My keynote on Serverless from O'Reilly Software Architecture NYC

Last week I gave my second O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference keynote, giving an introduction to Serverless with some new thoughts that John Chapin and I have been mulling over the last few months, including unifying themes across various Serverless products.

Fearless JVM Lambdas @ Clojure/west

John made the trek out to beautiful Portland, Oregon to speak about Fearless JVM Lambdas at the 2017 Clojure/west conference. The talk included an overview of Serverless, and a deep dive into using the Clojure programming language with AWS Lambda’s JVM runtime.

Mike interviewed on 'Software Engineering Daily' — Aug 23 2016

Mike spoke to Jeff Meyerson at the Software Engineering Daily podcast about all things Serverless. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/08/23/serverless-architecture-with-mike-roberts/

Speaking at NYC Java SIG — Feb 2 2017

Mike and John spoke at the New York Java SIG, giving an introduction to Serverless, and then some detail using Java and AWS Lambda. See their talks below!