Think Granular To Go Faster In Serverless! — Part 2: Granular Mindset

In this five-part series, we discuss Granularity to bring awareness and how it benefits teams adopting serverless.

• Part 1: Individuality
• Part 2: Granular Mindset
• Part 3: Breaking the Microservices
• Part 4: Fine-Grained Teams
• Part 5: Event-Driven Architecture

In Part 1: Individuality, the focus was on single-purpose, single responsibility, and individual identity of resources, microservices, and teams. With this understanding, it’s time to go granular and look at-

• Developing a granular mindset
• Applying granularity in serverless development

Granular Mindset

For many, developing a serverless mindset itself is a challenge. It’s not necessarily due to a lack of skills but the influence of our past experiences that we can’t let go. We draw comparison with a legacy application we worked on, a traditional microservice we developed, container management we sweated out, or other personal triumphs that drags us back and halts us from changing our thinking.

A granular mindset is not something newly demanded by serverless. We have been exercising it on many occasions and…