Azure & DevOps Podcast

Paul Yuknewicz: Cloud Native & Serverless - Episode 284

Feb 12, 2024

Paul Yuknewicz, Lead Product Manager for Azure Developer Experience at Microsoft, talks about his career evolution and the power of the open-source world. He discusses serverless computing, container apps, and the benefits of serverless architecture. Paul also shares insights on using serverless models for cost savings and highlights the Azure Container environment and app scoping.

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Quick takeaways

Microservices focus on agility and scalability, while serverless is all about elasticity and cost optimization.

Dapper acts as a mediator in Azure Container Apps, providing APIs for functionalities like pub/sub, state management, and service discovery.

Deep dives

Overview of Serverless and Microservices

Serverless and microservices are two distinct concepts. Microservices focus on agility and scalability, allowing for the development of smaller, autonomous pieces of code that can scale independently. Microservices can be deployed as separate containers within Azure Container Apps and communicate with each other using APIs provided by Dapper, a sidecar process running alongside the container. On the other hand, serverless is all about elasticity and cost optimization. It abstracts away the need to manage and provision servers, allowing applications to scale dynamically based on demand. With serverless, developers can focus on writing code and rely on Azure to handle the scaling and resource management behind the scenes.

Microservices and Scalability

01:26

Introduction

4min

Career Journey, Dapper, and Serverless Computing

11min

Benefits of Containers and Serverless Architecture

4min

Serverless models and cost savings

17min

Azure Container Environment and App Scoping

3min

Paul Yuknewicz is a Lead Product Manager for Azure Developer Experience at Microsoft; he is responsible for the PM team that designs the developer experience for building and diagnosing cloud-native applications for Azure. In his role, he’s very passionate about helping developers succeed in building high-scale distributed applications and building strong collaboration with customers. He has fun learning and challenging the status quo in a breadth of technologies and languages, like Linux, Windows, Java, .NET, Serverless, containers, service meshes, and application observability. He speaks at industry conferences not only at Microsoft but also at conferences like DEVintersection, TechBash, and more.

Topics of Discussion:

[4:40] Paul talks about his career evolution.

[5:28] Working in SharePoint, Azure, and then in the microservices field.

[6:44] DAPR, distributed application runtime.

[8:06] The power of the open source world.

[8:33] What is Serverless?

[11:08] The evolution of their work in AI.

[12:05] The concept of Serverless vs. developing in a microservices fashion.

[15:17] Why Paul thinks containers are great.

[18:16] Who Serverless is good for.

[20:01] Serverless architecture and cost savings.

[23:55] Container apps.