Serverless opens up business opportunities that weren’t imagined before.

Serverless means no infrastructure to manage

With serverless, pay for value; this is good for prototyping and bootstrapping an idea

AWS serverless launched in 2014

Core principle of serverless - event driven architecture

Most software is event driven

AI agents are going to be big - Nick coult, Director of product, Serverless compute @ AWS

Focus should be on the end business goal and not on the input like which language or tech stack

Getting hands dirty and jumping in is the best way, not to wait and plan

For tech stack modernization initiatives, create a phased migration strategy that breaks down changes into small, digestible increments

AWS Step functions, AWS Distro - open telemetry

LLM Judge - use one LLM to critique another’s performance

MCP, an open protocol that standardises how applications provide context to LLMs.

MCP: USB-C port for AI applications

Cold starts is one of the most significant architectural challenges in serverless computing, where functions experience latency delays when invoked after periods of inactivity.

Limitations of LLMs

• Trained in the past ( they don’t know the current day’s stock market )

• Are stateless. They don’t retain memory between interactions

• Can generate content, but they cannot take actions

• Aren’t trained on AWS scale problems ( Trillions of lambda invocation / month )

Forcing function: A mechanism that compels specific behaviour by making alternative actions difficult

Very challenging to modernise AWS services, ECR took 5 years to rewrite.

Bleeding edge of AI: Automated reasoning