How To Build Sustainable Serverless Applications!

Sheen Brisals
10 min readFeb 17, 2022

In Part I: Think Sustainability While Developing Serverless Applications, we discussed why sustainability is applicable in serverless developments. It introduced the Serverless Sustainability Triangle that highlighted the following three aspects.

  • Building sustainable serverless solutions by
  • Following sustainable development processes, and
  • Applying cloud best practices towards a sustainable environment.

In this Part II, we will look at the essentials of building a sustainable serverless application.

Sustaining is the process of keeping something going for a prolonged period by nurturing it with a continuous provision of nourishment to ensure its growth and existence.

The Serverless Sustainability Triangle

The Sustainability Triangle shows how the three aspects of sustainability in serverless development are interrelated.

Sustainability triangle.
The Serverless Sustainability Triangle. Source Author.

Dependency in a sustainable world

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Sheen Brisals

Co-author of Serverless Development on AWS (O'Reilly, 2024) | Engineer. Architect. Leader. Writer. Speaker. AWS Serverless Hero.