Cloud and Serverless Computing: Tech's Unsung Heroes

Mr. Singh was one of 30 IT executives who responded via email to CIO Journal's annual end-of-year questionnaire about their thoughts on emerging technologies and other issues. One important technology that is adding business value but hasn't generated much buzz is serverless computing, said Nigel Faulkner, head of technology at financial-services company T. Rowe Price Group Inc. In this emerging method of software development, physical and virtual servers traditionally used to run certain applications become invisible to the developers building apps because the servers are owned and managed by a cloud provider. This frees developers from having to manage servers and enables them to focus on writing code. Serverless computing can modernize applications while reducing the costs necessary to run and support them, Mr. Faulkner said.