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Serverless Computing

By Martin English | November 20, 2007

from Nick Carr…

Robert Scoble notes the rise of “the serverless Internet company” that can launch and run a webwide business through the window of a browser. He writes of a recent conversation he had with Max Haot, the CEO of Mogulus, a site that lets people produce and broadcast video programs:

At one point Max seemed like he was joking around with me when he told me “we don’t own a single server.” I asked him FOUR more times to make sure I heard him right … He nicely and calmly explained that, yes, every server the company owns is actually running on Amazon’s S3 and EC2 services.

The world has changed. Now ANYONE can build an Internet company and get it up to scale. No more spending nights inside data centers trying to keep servers running.

Interesting comments, on both Nick Carr’s and Scoble’s blog.

Like many in a system administration role, if I did not have to worry about hardware, I could be working on ways to improve the IT processes - both our own and our customers. This trend to “outsource” the company’s hardware systems is just a further commoditisation of the IT space. And when the hardware goes, guess what?

I guess we need to learn more about Amazon Web Services.

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