The Ops in the Serverless
Examining the increased need for specialized Operations Engineering in the Age of Serverless
| Talk Title | The Ops in the Serverless |
| Speakers | Jennifer Davis (Microsoft) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Velocity Conference |
| Conf Tag | Building and maintaining complex distributed systems |
| Location | San Jose, California |
| Date | June 11-13, 2019 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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A function is deployed, and alerts go off. When our intrepid site reliability engineer responds to the change in availability, she begins the task of debugging and implementing new tests to catch the issue in future deployments. While the nature and complexity of computing changes, the need for specialized operations engineering skills increases. In this talk, we examine the role of Operations, how it has evolved with the advent of new compute paradigms and what the future looks like. We’ll use the serverless platform to examine three critical areas of operational readiness of testing, monitoring, and debugging.
