The document discusses software productivity and how serverless computing can help improve developer productivity. It notes that while technology has enabled innovations that should improve productivity, like the internet and outsourcing, productivity has not increased as much as expected. This may be due to complex abstractions and underutilized data. Serverless aims to abstract away infrastructure from application development as much as possible. It lists 9 ways serverless can help boost productivity such as removing scaling concerns, enabling experimentation, making technology scale with products, and enabling low-code development.

1. Nick Gottlieb
Product/Growth @ Serverless
nick@serverless.com
Software Productivity
& Serverless

3. the effectiveness of productive effort,
especially in industry, as measured in
terms of the rate of output per unit of
input.
Productivity

4. 1. Developer Productivity
Productivity

5. 1. Developer Productivity
2. Software ProductivityProductivity

6. 1. Product/Engineering Process
2. DevOps/Automation
3. Outsourced Infrastructure
4. Architectures
Where have we
innovated in
developer
productivity?

7. 1. Internet as a distribution channel
2. Outsourcing business processes
3. Pricing models
4. Platforms
Where have we
innovated in
software
productivity?

8. // Real Impact on Productivity?

9. Productivity paradox

10. // Why?

11. Christiaan Colen
Could it be a software problem?

12. 1. Abstractions are still too complex
2. Coal mining
3. Underutilized data
Roadblocks to
Productivity

13. // 9 ways Serverless can help
Serverless: a movement to abstract infrastructure
away from application development as much as
possible.

14. 1: remove scaling from the equation

15. 2: make it easy to go global

16. 3: make experimentation cheap

17. 4: tech should scale with a product

18. 5: make tech as accessible as possible

19. 6: make it easy to customize tooling

20. 7: make data accessible

21. 8: make code more reusable

22. 9: enable low/no-code development

23. Everyone in the room can help accomplish this

24. // Thank you
nick@serverless.com