111: Serverless in Today's World with Niall Dalton

<p>On the podcast today, Michael Levan is hosting and chatting with guest Niall Dalton, who came from a systems engineering background and now has his own company. He’s the co-founder of Seaplane, a serverless company that’s working to help people not have to spend all their time managing infrastructure.</p><ul><li>Niall’s career background and how he came to co-found a company.</li><li>How going serverless lets people concentrate on shipping their app rather than the nuts-and-bolts side of things.</li><li>Why it’s important to go global with your app right from the beginning.</li><li>How Seaplane works and how it isn’t trying to replace the cloud, but rather, it’s providing a better and more efficient way to consume it.</li><li>The importance of recognizing the granularity your project needs and how to match your service to that need.</li><li>How serverless features are still super new, but already are proving to be letting the cloud fulfill the function we all wanted it to.</li><li>Examples of programs and web applications that have revolutionized industries (like Excel for finance or e-commerce platforms for small businesses) and how serverless technology is also changing the game.</li><li>Niall’s opinion of what advances in serverless will do to the environment of current system admin and dev ops jobs.</li></ul><p>Resources from this episode:</p><ul><li>Niall Dalton on <a href="https://seaplane.io/">LinkedIn</a></li><li>Check out <a href="https://seaplane.io">seaplane.io</a></li></ul>