The serverless computing scene isn’t famous for its love of rules and regulations. The open-source communities and developers that fuel it might not even agree on how to define serverless computing, and may embrace the chaos and the freedom it grants.

But enterprise folks care less about being cool and more about their getting jobs done. For them, serverless needs to come in a relatively straight and narrow package, according to Yaron Haviv (pictured, right), founder and chief technology officer of Iguazio Systems Ltd.

“I think that’s what enterprise customers are looking for; not everyone is eBay and Google and Netflix,” Haviv said. In other words, most enterprises don’t have the resources to endlessly fiddle with a million serverless ingredients and hope something edible bakes out. Iguaz.io and partners are saddling up to pull various pieces of serverless technology together for easy interoperability. They are trying to strike a balance between the extremes of being too messy and opinionated, according to Haviv.

Haviv and Doug Davis (pictured, left), co-chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Serverless Working Group and a senior technical staff member at IBM, spoke with John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Lauren Cooney (@lcooney), founder and chief executive officer of Spark Labs Consulting LLC, at the KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU event in Denmark. They discussed emerging standards in serverless computing.

Dr. CNCF in the interoperating room

“Don’t use the standard word; there are people allergic to that,” Haviv said. Jests aside, the serverless community is slowly making friends with standards thanks, in part, to the work of CNCF’s Serverless Working Group of which Haviv and Davis are members. Interoperablility among different serverless platforms is the group’s main goal.

“How can we help the end user not get locked into one platform, not get locked into one solution and make their life easier over all?” Davis asked.

The group’s work has culminated in CNCF’s recently released CloudEvents specification version 0.1. CloudEvents defines the common metadata that aids in the transferring of a serverless event from any producer to any consumer, Davis explained.

“People might look at it and say, ‘What’s the big deal?” Davis said. “But even with that simple, little thing, we’ve been able to get some level of interoperability between the various platforms.”

This is a sure first step to providing users with both choice and ease in serverless computing, Davis concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU.

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