Serverless Beyond the Buzzword: A Strategic Approach to Modern Cloud Management: A Strategic Approach to Modern Cloud Management

Know how Serverless and cloud-native systems work, their benefits and roles in automating and optimizing organizations, and the challenges to be considered. Anyone interested in Serverless architecture will benefit from this book, regardless of their level of technical understanding.

This revised and expanded new edition explains many related terms, such as microservices, cloud-native, architecture, several relevant AWS services, and how it all works together to produce cost-effective, scalable solutions in the cloud. The book starts at a high level and gradually gets more in-depth and technical.

The less technical decision maker will learn how Serverless can affect finance, security, people, and compliance. The book touches on important decisions, such as selecting and working with external or internal specialists and teams; finding, evaluating, and training them; and the flexibility and dynamics available within digital projects.

Deployment automation and DevOps also feature heavily in this book, and you will find real-world use cases and examples of Serverless architecture to get you started. It's worth noting that this book is not a development guide; it gives you a comprehensive understanding of what Serverless is so you can make informed decisions for your organization and projects.

What You'll Learn

• Understand Serverless architecture and strategy
• Understand modern cloud management strategy, governance, and organizational team structure
• Handle budget planning and management
• Get started with Serverless architecture design
• Gain knowledge of best practices and security, as well as data management and DevOps
• Study proactive logging, operations, architecture examples, case studies, and more

Who This Book Is For

Anyone interested in a deep understanding of Serverless and how it can impact organizations and projects, regardless of their technical level. Strategic insights are provided for entrepreneurs and executives, planning and team insights for project managers, and technical insights for architects and team leads. Cloud consultants working with enterprises can read everything for a full, in-depth understanding of the topic. Other readers, such as less technical CTOs/CIOs, VPs, entrepreneurs, product owners, project managers, etc., can get what they need from the first 5-7 chapters. More technical readers and those experienced with Serverless can skim through the first 3 chapters and start with the security deep dive in Chapter 4.

了解無伺服器和雲原生系統的運作方式、其在自動化和優化組織中的好處和角色，以及需要考慮的挑戰。無論技術理解程度如何，對無伺服器架構感興趣的任何人都會從本書中受益。

這本修訂和擴展的新版解釋了許多相關術語，如微服務、雲原生、架構、幾個相關的AWS服務，以及它們如何共同工作以在雲中產生具有成本效益和可擴展性的解決方案。本書從高層次開始，逐漸深入並變得更加技術性。

非技術性的決策者將了解無伺服器如何影響財務、安全性、人員和合規性。本書涉及重要的決策，例如選擇和與外部或內部專家和團隊合作；尋找、評估和培訓他們；以及數位專案中可用的靈活性和動態性。

本書還大量涵蓋部署自動化和DevOps，並提供真實世界的無伺服器架構使用案例和示例，以幫助您入門。值得注意的是，本書不是一本開發指南；它讓您全面了解無伺服器是什麼，以便您能為組織和專案做出明智的決策。

您將學到什麼：

- 了解無伺服器架構和策略
- 了解現代雲管理策略、治理和組織團隊結構
- 處理預算規劃和管理
- 開始使用無伺服器架構設計
- 獲得最佳實踐和安全性的知識，以及數據管理和DevOps
- 學習主動日誌記錄、運營、架構示例、案例研究等

適合閱讀對象：

對無伺服器有深入了解以及它如何影響組織和專案的任何人，無論他們的技術水平如何。本書提供了對於企業家和高管的戰略洞察，對於專案經理的計劃和團隊洞察，以及對於架構師和團隊負責人的技術洞察。與企業合作的雲顧問可以閱讀全部內容，以全面深入地了解該主題。其他讀者，如不太技術性的CTO/CIO、副總裁、企業家、產品擁有者、專案經理等，可以從前5-7章獲得所需的內容。更具技術性的讀者和有無伺服器經驗的讀者可以略讀前3章，然後從第4章的安全性深入探討開始。

Thomas Smart has been actively involved with digital projects since 2002. His experience crosses many industries and types and sizes of organisations, giving him a wealth of experience and knowledge to draw upon as part of his consulting services. Since 2020 he has worked as a senior consultant for Sourced Singapore, helping large, regulated enterprises evolve their cloud strategy to productively deliver Serverless applications. This experience has provided many new insights for large enterprises and their unique challenges when adopting modern cloud strategies.

Thomas Smart自2002年以來一直積極參與數位專案。他的經驗涵蓋多個行業、組織的類型和規模，使他在提供諮詢服務時擁有豐富的經驗和知識。自2020年以來，他一直擔任Sourced Singapore的高級顧問，協助大型受監管企業發展其雲端策略，以生產性地提供無伺服器應用程式。這段經驗為大型企業及其在採用現代雲端策略時面臨的獨特挑戰提供了許多新的見解。