Since 2014 when Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda introduced serverless architecture, serverless systems have gained traction amongst the tech community; they are now offered by all major cloud service providers, including Microsoft and Google. In serverless systems, computing resources are provisioned on-demand, using either back-end-as-a-service (BaaS) or function-as-a-service (FaaS) methodology. The name is a bit misleading because there are still servers in serverless environments; however, they’re essentially invisible to customers who don’t see, manage, or interact with them.

DevOps is all about helping bring new software and applications to the market faster while ensuring the best value for the end-user. The collective success of implementing this model rests heavily on the people who are tasked with implementing it.

Now, hiring good people, in general, is hard; hiring good developers is harder; hiring good DevOps experts is the hardest. Why? For one, hiring for DevOps is more than filling one narrow role – to take on such a complex task for an organization requires great people. Read further to explore the complex role of a DevOps expert and several reasons why enterprises struggle to find the right people to satisfy their DevOps needs.

You’ve probably heard the term “best practices” thrown about before but what does it actually mean? If you asked three different people to define “best practices”, you’d get three different answers. Who’s making these “best practices”? Why are they “the best”? Are any of them actually worth following?