Keynote: Serverless State of the Union - Austen Collins, Founder & CEO, Serverless Inc.
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 07/03/2018

Keynote: Serverless State of the Union - Austen Collins, Founder & CEO, Serverless Inc. 


Serverless has captivated the IT community at an incredible pace, and for good reason.  It has tremendous power to liberate productivity, increase innovation and reduce overhead.  However, adopting serverless technologies is still not well understood.  As the ecosystem grows around serverless, we’re empowered with options, yet further distanced us from a clear path to adoption.

In this talk, we’ll break through the clutter to investigate use-cases, adoption methods, the power of serverless now and it’s capacity to meet the demands of the future.  We’ll also look into open-source, community-led projects within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation that aim to advance the adoption of serverless technologies, while enabling interoperability and an open ecosystem.

About Austen 
Austen Collins is a product-obsessed, software engineering leader.  His focus is not on technology, but on business value, customer experience and making meaning.  Austen is a primary influencer of the emerging “serverless” movement.  He is the creator of the Serverless Framework, the leading open-source tool for building applications with the least possible cost and overhead on top of infrastructure with “serverless” qualities.  In 2015, he founded Serverless Inc. (serverless.com), which creates developer tools and infrastructure to help organizations build and operate serverless applications.  He lives in San Francisco, CA.