Serverless as a Game Changer: How to Get the Most Out of the Cloud

Some organizations are gaining immense business value from the cloud, just as promised--but many are falling short. This book reveals why, and helps you get your tech stack and mindset right, so you can deliver software faster, better, at lower cost. Drawing on his experience as a pioneering CTO helping to revolutionize the insurance industry, Joseph Emison shows how to leverage "serverless" to change the game--and win it.

Many serverless adopters are focusing on converting and building apps on serverless compute platforms like AWS Lambda, but Emison's approach is more all-encompassing and offers greater promise. Emison presents better ways to think about your tech stack, optimize build-or-buy decisions, choose the right vendor for each COTS or open-source solution, and draw on the industry's best managed services.

Emison has written the definitive guide to leveraging "serverless" for maximum customer value. He reveals why "mindset" is so crucial to modern IT strategy, explains why and how to move towards a truly serverless mindset, and walks through the creation of a real-world serverless enterprise.

Emison concludes with an exclusive directory of current managed services that enable the serverless mindset, with focused descriptions of each service, and concise explanations of its role in modern application architecture. Many of these offerings are unfamiliar to enterprise architects--but they're working in production, and can radically simplify any serverless transition.

一些組織正在從雲端獲得巨大的商業價值，就像所承諾的一樣，但許多組織卻未能達到預期效果。本書揭示了其中的原因，並幫助您正確運用技術堆疊和思維方式，以便更快、更好、更低成本地交付軟體。作者Joseph Emison以自己作為一位開創性的CTO幫助改變保險業的經驗，展示了如何利用「無伺服器」來改變遊戲規則並贏得勝利。

許多無伺服器的採用者專注於將應用程式轉換和建立在像AWS Lambda這樣的無伺服器計算平台上，但Emison的方法更全面且更有潛力。Emison提出了更好的思考技術堆疊的方式，優化建造或購買的決策，為每個COTS或開源解決方案選擇合適的供應商，並利用行業最佳的托管服務。

Emison撰寫了一本關於如何最大程度地利用「無伺服器」為客戶創造價值的權威指南。他揭示了為什麼「思維方式」對於現代IT策略如此重要，解釋了為什麼以及如何朝著真正的無伺服器思維方式邁進，並詳細介紹了一個真實世界無伺服器企業的建立過程。

Emison最後提供了一個獨家目錄，列出了當前支持無伺服器思維方式的托管服務，並對每個服務進行了重點描述，簡明解釋了其在現代應用程式架構中的角色。這些服務中有許多對企業架構師來說可能不熟悉，但它們正在生產環境中運作，並且可以徹底簡化任何無伺服器轉型的過程。

Joe Emison is the co-founder and CTO of Branch, a personal lines insurance company. Before Branch, Joe built five other companies as a technical co-founder, across many industries, including consumer electronics, local government, big data analysis, and commercial real estate. Joe graduated with degrees in English and Mathematics from Williams College and has a law degree from Yale Law School.

Joe Emison是Branch的聯合創始人兼首席技術官(CTO)，Branch是一家個人財產保險公司。在加入Branch之前，Joe作為技術聯合創始人建立了其他五家公司，涵蓋了多個行業，包括消費電子、地方政府、大數據分析和商業房地產。Joe畢業於威廉姆斯學院，獲得英語和數學學位，並擁有耶魯法學院的法學學位。