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.
Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge
Serverless Craic Ep67 Workgrid Case Study
🎙️ Serverless Craic: Chapter 12 – The Workgrid Case Study
In 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 the early days of Workgrid, a startup founded in 2017 with Gillian McCann. As one of the first companies to adopt a “serverless-first” philosophy, Workgrid’s journey offers valuable lessons in building modern digital employee experiences under real-world startup constraints.
đź’ˇ Topics Covered:
The importance of a pragmatic, serverless-first architecture
Managed services vs. infrastructure-heavy approaches
Startup pressures: speed, cost, and time to market
Creating an “environment for success” in engineering teams
Real-world examples of modular design, cost awareness, and evolving architectures
Building secure, compliant, multi-tenant SaaS on serverless
The value of partnering with cloud providers like AWS
Lessons in team growth, hiring for mindset over tech stack
🔥 Quote of the episode:
"I never said serverless was easier. I said it was better." – Gillian McCann
Whether you’re in a startup or enterprise, this episode will inspire you to rethink your architectural strategy and team dynamics for building scalable, cost-effective cloud-native systems.
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