Think and Develop Serverless Applications as ‘Set-Pieces’

Sheen Brisals
13 min readAug 6, 2020

Serverless story-telling

In my previous articles on serverless, I used themes such as cooking, growing, fishing, and hiring. In this, I talk about football, movies, and music. “What do they have to do with serverless?”, you might ask. Well, there isn’t anything directly common between these themes and serverless. However, with some imagination and story-telling, we can easily build the connections ourselves.

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I often make analogies to convey the serverless message. Serverless adoption happens at different levels, not just at the core technical level. Therefore, why not add a bit of fun, mix it up with some variety, throw in a few fresh ideas, provoke your thoughts, and above all, relieve you from the serverless overdose!

This is a two-part write-up on how to approach your serverless development. In this first part, I talk about the set-piece concept and discuss how it might help to tune your serverless mindset. In the next part, I will walk you through a real use case and explain how to apply the set-piece thinking in serverless development.

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Sheen Brisals

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