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Conclusions
We expect serverless to be more widely deployed over the next two to three years. In the
longer term, we expect deeper crossover and integration of cloud-native technologies and
methodologies, including serverless, with adjacent trends including data analytics and data
science, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and IoT/edge computing.
These technological frontiers, already trending toward an expected norm for many organizations,
highlight both a challenge and an opportunity for enterprises. The challenge is that enterprises
must leverage existing teams and technology while seeking new talent and opportunities to
use emergent technology to facilitate growth, efficiency and cost reductions. For enterprises,
serverless offers a solution to those challenges, enabling teams to accelerate product and
feature delivery, reduce costs, eliminate undifferentiating work, focus on the user experience
and attract top talent. Based on the experiences of the companies interviewed for this paper, we
anticipate headlines of serverless success stories to become more prominent and mainstream
than they are today.
