Developers of serverless applications have not changed a lot since we published the “Guide to Serverless Technologies” in 2018, which had surveyed over 300 users of serverless architecture. Back then, 78% primarily planned to use serverless architecture for new instead of existing workloads. Fast forward two years and 75% plan to build a greenfield serverless application in the next 12 months, according to a 2020 community survey managed by Jeremy Daly, who hosts the Serverless Chats podcast. The results’ raw data can be found in a GitHub repo.
The surveys are comparable, partly because we communicated with Jeremy during the question creation phase of the project. Then and now, the top use cases revolved around REST APIs and business logic. Then and now, excitement centered around design patterns rather than whiz-bang technologies. Now more than before, the breadth of adoption will continue to rise, but glaring obstacles are inhibiting enterprises from rapidly scaling up the workloads running on serverless architecture.
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