What data scientists and data engineers can do with current generation serverless technologies

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Avner Braverman on what’s missing from serverless today and what users should expect in the near future.

By Ben Lorica
April 11, 2019
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What data scientists and data engineers can do with current generation serverless technologies
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In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Avner Braverman, co-founder and CEO of Binaris, a startup that aims to bring serverless to web-scale and enterprise applications. This conversation took place shortly after the release of a seminal paper from UC Berkeley (“Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing”), and this paper seeded a lot of our conversation during this episode.

Serverless is clearly on the radar of data engineers and architects. In a recent survey, we found 85% of respondents already had parts of their data infrastructure in one of the public clouds, and 38% were already using at least one of the serverless offerings we listed. As more serverless offerings get rolled out—e.g., things like PyWren that target scientists—I expect these numbers to rise.

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We had a great conversation spanning many topics, including:

  • A short history of cloud computing.
  • The fundamental differences between serverless and conventional cloud computing.
  • The reasons serverless—specifically AWS Lambda—took off so quickly.
  • What can data scientists and data engineers do with the current generation serverless offerings.
  • What is missing from serverless today and what should users expect in the near future.

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