We’d all love to live in a serverless utopia where functions zoom like speed trains through the cloud. For now, though, most have an on-premises ball and chain tethering us to the Earth. Can we at least enjoy a slice of serverless heaven that will help modernize our hybridized information-technology environments?

“You have all those big companies that have those slow-moving pieces — Oracle DB, IBM MQ … and so on — and they need to make those pieces relevant in a fast-moving internalized world and in a cloud-native world. How do you bridge that gap?” asked Sebastien Goasguen (pictured, right), co-founder and chief product officer of TriggerMesh Inc.

The answer, according to Goasguen, is with the light but powerful integration capabilities of a serverless event bus. In fact, he argues, event-driven applications are the real desired end product of serverless-computing efforts.

Goasguen, along with Mark Hinkle (pictured, left), co-founder and chief executive officer of TriggerMesh, spoke with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, for a CUBE Conversation at our studio in Boston, Massachusetts. They discussed TriggerMesh’s EveryBridge announcement this morning and how to pragmatically fold serverless into hybrid IT.

Event bus makes hybrid rounds

“You want as much serverless as possible in the cloud — but you have to deal with your on-premises databases and … workloads and so on. So you have to be a pragmatic,” Goasguen concluded. 

Here’s the complete video interview including today’s news, one of many CUBE Conversations from SiliconANGLE and theCUBE:

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