The Advent of Serverless Technologies

Exploring the Next Generation of
Enterprise Infrastructure
The advent of serverless technologies

Speakers
Derek Yee
Product Marketing Lead,
Performance Solutions @
Cloudflare
Remy Guercio
Product Marketing Manager,
Serverless @ Cloudflare
Arnal Dayaratna
Research Director,
Software Development @
IDC

What you will learn today
What is serverless? Why serverless matters How Cloudflare can help
you get started

Agenda
● An introduction to Cloudflare
● How deploying applications have evolved
● The challenges faced by developers
● Exploring the serverless landscape
● How Cloudflare Workers can help

A Global Anycast Network
150+Data centers globally
2.8B
Monthly active visitors
generating 1.3 trillion
page view
10%Internet requests
everyday
8MRequests/second
websites, apps & APIs
in 150+ countries
10M+
2x
Speed up each
request by

How Cloudflare helps
SECURITY PERFORMANCE
DDoS Attacks
Attack traffic degrades availability or
performance and creates
unpredictable surges in
infrastructure costs
Data Theft Attempts
Attackers compromise customer
data, such as user credentials, credit
card information, and other PII
Unavailable Applications
Overloaded or unavailable
infrastructure stops users from
accessing applications
Slow Internet Applications and APIs
Heavy pages and long distances
from the origin slow down webpages,
applications, and APIs
Slow Mobile Sites and Apps
Mobile clients introduce performance
and content delivery constraints that
hurt user experience

DNS DDoS Firewal
l
TLS CDNWorkers WAF Argo
Rapid onboarding,
easy configurations, and
robust APIs
Cloudflare Data Center
Scalable global network with
a modern, unified
architecture across all
datacenters
Integrated stack of
security, performance
and reliability services
Origin Server

The evolution of enterprise app
deployments

Generation One: One Box; One Application
Time to Deploy
Months
Bare metal servers

Generation Two: One Box; Many Applications
Time to Deploy
Weeks
Server virtualization

Generation Three: No box; many applications
Time to Deploy
Hours/Minutes
Migrate and deploy in the
cloud

Deploying in the cloud brings challenges

Presenter Bio
14© IDC
Arnal Dayaratna, Ph.D.
Research Director,
Software Development
Dr. Arnal Dayaratna is Research Director, Software
Development at IDC. Dr. Dayaratna specializes in
software developer demographics, development
tools, modalities of software development and trends
in programming languages.

Challenges of Developing in the Cloud
15© IDC
Optimizing new applications for the cloud by using
microservices architectures, containers and dynamic
orchestration
Accelerating development and improving
developer productivity
Replatforming and refactoring on-premises
applications for the cloud can be costly and time
consuming
Accurately estimating infrastructure resources
required for specific workloads and applications
(VMs, storage, networking, etc.)

Demonstrates high availability
© IDC 16
What is Serverless?
A model of computing that takes responsibility
for the provisioning, configuration and
management of infrastructure
Uses Functions to execute applications in
response to events or triggers
Leverages a pay for utilization pricing model

Tools for debugging, monitoring and
performance management are being
improved to provide greater visibility into
drivers of performance
© IDC 17
The Serverless Landscape
80.8% of developers are either using,
planning to use or evaluating
serverless technology
Landscape is dominated by proprietary
implementations and commercial
implementations of open source Apache
OpenWhisk
Developer tooling remains
immature
N=3,013 weighted. Source: IDC PaaSView for the Developer Survey, November 2017

Developers are driving buying decisions
© IDC
IDC survey data reveals that developers are
most interested in developing applications
instead of managing infrastructure and
implementing security
▪ As such, the fully managed quality of serverless
computing appeals to developers
▪ Other factors that influence buying include user
experience, speed and ease of debugging
Another key factor that influences buying:
what languages are supported? Are there
enough developers who are fluent in the
development languages supported by the
platform?
N=1,296 weighted. Source: IDC PaaSView for the Developer Survey, November 2017

Drivers of Serverless Adoption
© IDC
Optimization of resource consumption
Fully managed
infrastructure
Simplified development experience
that adopts microservices
architectures
Portability, derived from the use of
containers, enables serverless
applications to run on any cloud

Remy Guercio
Product Marketing Manager @ Cloudflare

Cloudflare Workers is
network based serverless.

Cloudflare Workers
Users Origin / APIs

Why Cloudflare Workers?
Network Based ServerlessLow Overhead Environment

Getting Started
Free Professional Business Enterprise
Starting at: $5/Month
Includes up to 10m
requests
$5/Month
Includes up to 10m
requests
$5/ Month
Includes up to 10m
requests
Custom
Billed at $.50/1m
requests
Price/Request Subsequent charges at
$0.50 / 1m
Subsequent charges at
$0.50 / 1m
$0.50 / 1m
$0.50 / 1m
# of Scripts 1 1 1 Unlimited
CPU Time
<5 ms <10 ms <50 ms
Negotiable/requires a
scoping discussion
Get started: cfl.re/getstartedworkers
Developer?
developers.cloudflare.com/workers

Summary
What is serverless? Why serverless matters How Cloudflare can help
you get started
A computing model that that takes
responsibility for the provisioning,
configuration and management of
infrastructure
Increased application
development efficiency and
lower costs/overhead
Start using Cloudflare Workers
today at
cfl.re/getstartedworkers

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