Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge
Welcome to Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge with Dave Anderson, Mark McCann and Mike O'Reilly. We want to share our tools and techniques so that you can use them to communicate your Technical Strategy with your C-Suite and business owners. We want to help you to build a serverless first organisation. We will show you how to use Wardley Mapping to gain situational awareness of where your cloud applications and business are. And then how to develop your technical capability in away that builds engineering standards to set your organisation up for sustainable success.Sounds like the tools and techniques that you need - then hit the subscribe!-ABOUT- Dave, Mark and Mike are senior technical architects/leaders passionate about driving technical strategy. They have led transformation journeys, technical excellence, cloud adoption and tech strategies in many industries.Active in various technologies including ML/AI, Public Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), Engineering, Product, Cyber and UX.
Episodes
85 episodes
Serverless CrAIc Ep84 AI-Generated Code Is a Liability: Technical Debt & Engineering Excellence
Is AI-generated code creating more value — or more liability?In this episode of Serverless Craic, David Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly explore why one of software engineering’s oldest principles is suddenly more relevant th...
Serverless CrAIc Ep 83 Psychological Safety in the AI Era (No One Talks About This)
Psychological Safety in the AI Era: AI is moving so fast it’s not just changing how we build software — it’s changing how teams think, learn, and work together.But there’s a problem no one is talking about enough:What happens to...
Serverless CrAIc Ep82 AI Is Changing Software Engineering — Why Your North Star Matters
AI is dramatically increasing the speed at which teams can build software. But if you can ship features in hours instead of months, a new problem emerges:How do you know you’re building the right thing?In this episode of Serverless ...
Serverless CrAIc Ep81 AI - differentiator or commodity?
🎙 AI: Commodity or Differentiator? | The Value Flywheel in 2026AI has taken a step change. Over the past few months, adoption has accelerated dramatically — but are organisations applying it with clarity, or just chasing hype?In...
Serverless CrAIc Ep 80 AI Myths in Software Engineering
AI Myths in Software Engineering. AI is colliding with software engineering at full speed — and a lot of myths are emerging along the way.In this episode of Serverless Craic, Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly unpack how A...
Serverless Craic Ep79 — Reflecting on The Value Flywheel Effect (5 Years On)
In the first Serverless Craic episode of 2026, Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly reflect on a five-year journey that began in early 2021 with the idea for The Value Flywheel Effect.This episode closes out the book series ...
Serverless Craic Ep78 How the BBC Built a Serverless-First Architecture at Global Scale Case Study
How the BBC Built a Serverless-First Architecture: In this episode of Serverless Craic, Dave, Mark, and Michael explore one of the most compelling real-world examples of serverless at scale: the BBC’s serverless-first transformation.We ...
Serverless Craic Ep77 Mapping the Emerging Value – Chapter 19 | The Value Flywheel Effect
In this episode of The Serverless Craic, Dave, Mark, and Michael dive into Chapter 19: Mapping the Emerging Value from The Value Flywheel Effect. This chapter explores how leaders can use Wardley Mapping to uncover long-term strategic opportuni...
Serverless Craic Ep76 Sustainability & Innovation in Modern Cloud: Value Flywheel Chapter 18
Sustainability & Innovation in Modern Cloud: In this episode of Serverless Craic, Dave, Mark, and Michael dive into Chapter 18 of The Value Flywheel Effect — Sustainability and Space for Innovation.We explore why sustainable architectur...
Serverless Craic Ep75 How to Build a Problem Prevention Culture (AWS Well-Architected Explained)
How to Build a Problem Prevention Culture (AWS Well-Architected Explained)Stop firefighting — start preventing problems.In this episode of Serverless Craic, Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly explore how engineering teams ...
Serverless Craic Ep74 AWS Community Summit & Cloud Day 2025 | Serverless, AI & Bedrock AgentCore
In this episode of Serverless Craic, Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly share key takeaways from two major events — AWS Community Summit Manchester 2025 and AWS Cloud Day Dublin 2025.From psychological safety in engineerin...
Serverless Craic Ep73 Liberty Mutual’s Cloud Journey to Serverless
In this episode Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly revisit their time at Liberty Mutual, exploring how one of the world’s largest insurers transformed from legacy systems and SOA to cloud-native architectures and serverless-first ...
Serverless Craic Ep72 Map Your Tech Stack | Evolutionary Architecture & The Value Flywheel Effect
In this episode of Serverless Craic, Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly explore Chapter 15 of The Value Flywheel Effect — Map Your Solution. They discuss how Wardley Mapping and tech stack mapping create situational awareness, red...
Serverless Craic Ep71 AI, DevOps & Serverless: Building Frictionless Developer Experience
In this episode, Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly dive deep into The Value Flywheel Effect (Chapter 14) — discussing frictionless developer experience, sense checking, feedback culture, AI in software engineering, DevOps, platfo...
Serverless Craic Ep70 Frictionless Developer Experience in the Age of AI
In this episode Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly continue their deep dive tackling Chapter 14: The Frictionless Developer Experience.The crew explore whether the principles of engineering excellence, developer enablement...
Serverless Craic Ep69 Serverless myths debunked for modern cloud teams
Serverless myths debunked for modern cloud teams: In this episode, we dive into the second part of Chapter 13 The Serverless First Edge from The Value Flywheel Effect book. We explore common serverless myths, how relevant they still are in 2025...
Serverless Craic Ep68 The Serverless First Edge
Serverless First: Focus, Not FunctionalityIn this episode, Dave Anderson, Mark McCann and Michael O’Reilly dive into Chapter 13 of the Value Flywheel Effect—focusing on the concept of “Serverless First” and what it really means for engi...
Serverless Craic Ep67 Workgrid Case Study
🎙️ Serverless Craic: Chapter 12 – The Workgrid Case StudyIn this episode, Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly dive deep into Chapter 12 of The Value Flywheel Effect — the Workgrid case study.This episode explores th...
Serverless Craic Ep66 Map your Org Capability
Mapping Your Org Capability | Chapter 11 Breakdown of The Value Flywheel EffectIn this episode, Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly dive into Chapter 11 of The Value Flywheel Effect — "Map Your Organisational Capability".
Serverless Craic Ep65 SocialTechnical System for Change
🎙️ Serverless Craic: Exploring Socio-Technical Systems for ChangeWelcome back to Serverless Craic! In this episode, the team dives into Chapter 10: Challenge – A Socio-Technical System for Change from the book, The Value Flywheel Effect...
Serverless Craic Ep64 Environment for Success
🎙️ Environment for Success & Psychological SafetyWelcome back to another episode of Serverless Craic! After a short hiatus (thanks, ServerlessDays Belfast!), Dave Anderson and Mark McCann return to dive deep into one of the most critica...
Serverless Craic Ep63 Map the Market and A Cloud Guru Case Study
In this episode of Serverless Craic, Map the Market and A Cloud Guru Case Study, we dive into Chapters 7 and 8 of the book The Value Flywheel Effect. The discussion focuses on "Mapping the Market" and a fascinating case study on clarity of purp...
Serverless Craic Ep62 Obsess Over Time To Value
Welcome to the latest episode of Serverless Craic! 🎙️ Today, we're diving back into our series on The Value Flywheel Effect, focusing on Chapter 6: "Obsess Over Time to Value." Join us as we explore the significance of delivering v...
Serverless Craic Ep61 Finding your North Star
This episode centres on Chapter Five of the book "The Value Flywheel Effect," focusing on the North Star framework. We explain how this framework helps teams align their work with a clear, meaningful metric (North Star) and its related lead...
Serverless Craic Ep60 Mapping Techniques
In this insightful discussion, we explore mapping techniques from Chapter 3 of our book The Value Flywheel Effect and their applications in organisations. Key topics include:Anatomy of a Worldly Map: Breaking down the components of ...