Scale By The Bay 2019: Panel Discussion, Who Needs Serverless?

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Vitaly Gordon Co-founder & CEO, Faros.ai Speakers Steve Newman Founder and Chairman, Scalyr I'm the founder of Scalyr, where we're building the next observability platform. My whole career has been startups; previously I co-founded Writely, which evolved into Google Docs. Love to talk about observability, scaling, and architecture. James Ward Developer Advocate, Google James Ward is a nerd / software developer who shares what he learns with others though presentations, blogs, demos, and code. After over two decades of professional programming, he is now a self-proclaimed Typed Pure Functional Programming zealot but often compromises on his ideals... Read More → Jessie Frazelle Software Engineer Jessie Frazelle is a computer programmer who has worked at GitHub, Microsoft, Google, Docker and various companies, startups, even design agencies before that. She’s worked on a lot of the open source projects in the container ecosystem, she’s a top abuser of the GitHub api, and... Read More → Jaana Dogan Engineer, Google Jaana works on Google Compute Engine and is a familiar figure in the the software development community via her previous work on Go and OpenCensus, and from her blog and Twitter presence (@rakyll). Rose Toomey Software Engineer, Coatue Management Big data, Spark, Scala, fintech, ETL pipelines, digital assets, and object allocation. I love a performance mystery. George Mathew Engineer, Oracle George works at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) where he is the tech lead for Oracle Functions - a container…