Out With Infrastructure

For all the fun of provisioning virtual machines and rightsizing memory and compute instances, plenty of developers would rather never think about any of those things.

Enterprises in the process of digital transformation want to build apps, push them into production environments and let employees and customers use them as soon as possible. They don't want to concern themselves with how the underlying infrastructure is selected or scaled.

Containers have advanced the shift toward greater independence from infrastructure. Serverless computing is taking that idea to the next level.

AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure Functions both gained enterprise adoption faster than even their creators expected. Those innovative services, delivering event-driven compute, have clearly found an audience.

In 2017, the cloud will deliver more serverless models making possible compute-on-demand.