Getting started with serverless
The gap between knowing this and actually doing it is where most teams lose ground. A short on-ramp to serverless for teams who have not touched it before.
Cloud work rewards teams who automate early and punishes teams who click through consoles. It is worth deciding this deliberately rather than inheriting whatever the last person set up.
Why it matters
Excellent for spiky, event-shaped workloads. The teams that handle this well are rarely the ones with the biggest budgets. Assume whoever inherits this will have half your context and none of your patience.
Your first week
- Find out what is already in place
- Cold starts and vendor coupling are the real trade-offs
- Change one thing and measure it
Cost modelling matters more here than anywhere else. In practice this is a scheduling problem more than a technical one. It is the sort of thing that looks like polish right up until it costs you an enquiry.
The short version
Operability is a feature, and it has to be built rather than bought. Three things worth confirming about serverless before you move on:
- Someone can say what the current setup is without going to look
- Cost modelling matters more here than anywhere else — and you know whether that is true here
- There is a way to tell whether the last change to this helped
Worth checking on your own setup before it becomes someone else's problem to fix.