Why now is the right time for an open-source serverless strategy
Government agencies have been using open-source technologies such as Linux, Kubernetes, Ansible and more recently Linux containers to make application deployments more expedient and efficient. Increasingly, these applications are being built in acknowledgment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cloud characteristics, such as on-demand self-service, resource pooling and rapid elasticity.
Simultaneously, many agencies continue to rely on traditional static infrastructure provisioning models to support these increasingly dynamic applications. However, that approach may not make much sense in today’s cloud-based, data-intensive, event-driven world.
While traditional server infrastructures are still suitable for some workloads, they can be at odds with agencies’ efforts to achieve greater efficiency and agility. Traditional servers tend to be always on and running at full capacity 24/7, even if they have to handle only occasional spikes in capacity. That’s counterproductive to efficiency.
Also, traditional servers require developers to understand their infrastructure requirements in advance, which is not something typical developers want to worry about. They want to focus on accelerated development, not hardware components and configurations.
