There are two fascinating and completely contradictory trends going on in the infrastructure space. On the one hand, we have the rise of so called “server-less infrastructures,” the event-driven approach, first introduced by Amazon Web Services with its Lambda offering and since emulated by a number of public cloud providers (Google, IBM and Amazon for a start) as well as a number of initiatives.

The idea of these event-driven approaches is that processes sit idle, essentially doing nothing until a particular event occurs, at which time a process kicks off. Once that process is complete, the function shuts down and goes back into its vegetative state. The promise of these event-driven approaches is pretty exciting: All of a sudden developers and operations teams don’t need to think about servers, and can instead focus on the stuff that matters — building cool applications.

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Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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