Serverless computing is nothing new, but it's poised for major growth, according to recent market research. This week's guest has had a front-row seat to that growth both at AWS and Capital One, where he led the company's efforts to use serverless at scale and helped shape its Serverless Center of Excellence. In this episode, he discusses the pros and cons of serverless computing for enterprises, recent advances in adjacent technologies such as observability, and shares his lessons learned.Featuring: Brian McNamara, distinguished engineer at Capital OneIn today’s episode, we’ll cover…Cost and efficiency savings with serverless computingAWS CloudWatch, X-Ray and OpenTelemetry updates for serverless observabilityThe "NoOps" misnomerHow to help developers work with serverless functions effectivelyAnd more!References: AI will heavily influence cloud-related decisions in 2026Compare AWS Lambda vs. AWS Fargate for serverless 19 Top Distributed Tracing Tools to Know AboutTo learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations.To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.