While there will always be literal servers in the cloud, the relatively new concept of serverless computing adds one more layer within the cloud infrastructure stack. It works to take the burden of worrying about server management and capacity planning away from developers, allowing them to focus on code.

As a relatively new concept, there can be a steep learning curve for organizations. In order to help educate and promote serverless computing, A Cloud Guru Ltd steps in to teach and certify developers, whether the focus is on Amazon Web Services Inc., Google LLC’s Cloud Platform or Microsoft Corp.’s Azure.

“We had a passion for high-quality education from the very start, so it’s been incredible to see how the business has grown,” said Peter Sbarski (pictured), vice president of engineering and content at A Cloud Guru.

Sbarski spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at the ServerlessConf event in San Francisco. They discussed how to move organizations into a serverless mindset, as well as the importance of certifications in the cloud community.

The move to serverless requires a mind shift as well

Serverless computing allows developers to move quicker and to be more flexible, because they can focus on architecture, design and code rather than be concerned about infrastructure. For teams that work on serverless, they can think about business value rather than managing infrastructure, managing services, or security. Training is useful, because working and designing for serverless can be a daunting task, according to Sbarski.

In addition to education, Sbarski believes it’s also important that organizations have certified people in their ranks. While each different cloud provider, whether it’s AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, has different areas of emphasis with their training, they all cover the same fundamental building blocks.

“We have realized that certification is very important, because it gives your engineering team [and] your company … the same basis. It gives people the same the same language [and] the same level of understanding, so moving forward seems to move [teams] together,” he said.

After someone is certified, giving them a basic understanding of serverless, it is also a good idea for them to find an area of focus into which they can deep dive, Sbarski added. In that way, users can find their own area of expertise in which to continue to learn and grow.

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

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