Think Sustainability While Developing Serverless Applications!

Sheen Brisals
8 min readJan 25, 2022
Sustainable World. Source Author.

“All change please; all change!”

Famous last words of train guards across the UK rail network as the trains slowly come to a halt at their final destination.

A sleepy commuter on an afternoon train may not like these words, whereas someone traveling to meet a friend will be ready to get out and run along the platform in excitement.

Some of us like change; most of us don’t!

This is a multi-part series on sustainability in serverless. In this first part, we will look at-

  • how change shaped our industry,
  • why we must move away from a legacy mindset, and
  • how sustainability is relevant in serverless.

In a follow-up article, we will go through some of the practices to achieve sustainability while working with serverless.

Let’s Talk Change!

Change is a constant feature of evolution. Whether it is the evolution of living things or technology, change is inseparable.

Adapt and succeed

Some companies thrive on technology changes. They embrace change and adapt their business around it.

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Sheen Brisals

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