Devs Can't Stay Containerized & the Alternate Serverless Reality, Eyal Keren, Wing Cloud
Tools today in the cloud mostly focus on infrastructure config & management, without properly leveraging the economies of scale modern cloud providers can offer. K8s is an example of such a layer, that only leverages the lowest possible common denominator of the cloud - VMs, with the alternate paradigm, serverless introducing competing architectural decisions––largely maximum vs. minimal platform for devs.
Whether to choose K8s or serverless shouldn't be an architectural decision! These shouldn't be competing paradigms, but rather should be selected based on the merit of the workload & use case––yet by the nature of their current design - they can't co-exist. However, there should be a unified model & there can be! This talk we'll demonstrate why devs can't stay containerized & how it's hindering the ability to unleash the true power of the cloud–– which can be achieved by decoupling apps & platforms.
We'll walk through real examples that demo how with the right layer of abstraction, we can unlock the full potential of cloud, whether containerized or using FaaS--enabling us to build our apps independent of the underlying architecture & deploy them reliably to any platform.