Serverless Craic Ep17 Digital Product Leader expectations of the Modern Cloud

Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge

Welcome to our conversation on Digital Product Leaders and the Modern Cloud.
First of all, the good news is that our book has been announced: The Flywheel Effect. Let's just get that in there first!
But let's continue our discussion on the modern cloud. We've talked about what the modern cloud is from the perspective of the CEO. What about from the perspective of a product leader? What are the things that a product leader would expect from modern cloud? The first one is operational overhead. As a team, if you're building in modern cloud, there's less lower level stuff to worry about. So there's maybe more capacity for other things.
When teams are using a serverless method and taking advantage of the modern cloud, operational overhead is the main advantage. I'm not spending time setting up servers, building a full specification and veering away from traditional MVP. It gives me more time to think about product, measurement, hitting targets and understanding the business problems.
Responsiveness is critical. Teams are set up to leverage modern cloud. They're more aware of and responsive to the needs of product leads. If you're not focused on patching your servers and scaling network architecture, you are much more focused on the actual to address, the users, and their needs. And how can I leverage rapidly? You're part of the conversation.
For a product leader, your engineering teams should be more engaged with the problems that you're facing, the innovation you're trying to achieve or the issues you're trying to solve for customers. For product in the modern cloud, you should be expecting your engineering teams to be responsive to your needs. And there should be a good feedback loop. Because the time from idea to validation in production should be very short. It can be down to minutes, if you've architected and engineered it correctly.
It's the right type of operational overhead. I advise teams that getting the business view of your workload and getting the IT view of your workload is Day Zero work. You're going to need observability for production to be able to make rapid decisions. There is still operational stuff that you do. It's now aimed at product evolution and making good decisions for what you're building.
If you're leveraging modern cloud correctly and following well architected and serverless principles, you should be comfortable that you will scale globally to meet the need. It shouldn't be something you need to think about six months in advance. Having that mindset allows you to experiment rapidly. It allows you to be iterative in your product approach,
You've got the apparatus to see how your workload has been received, how it's being used or not used. When you talk about continuous improvement or evolution, your organisation has got to be set up for that. You are driving a culture of innovation. You will be constantly evolving what you're doing to move towards the business purpose set out for your team or organisation.
You'll find that you're moving into new areas and having conversations that you wouldn't have had previously, because you were so invested in setups. If you're leveraging modern cloud you'll have composable building blocks that your engineering teams can experiment with to meet needs in almost real time. From ideation, discovery and framing sessions, engineering teams will be able to stand up a prototype live and gi

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