New on the SaaS Developer Podcast: The Promise of Serverless. Ram and I talked about Serverless Databases. They are trendy these days, but not every SaaS that calls itself "Serverless Database" is worthy of the name. The key? Serverless databases help you focus on your queries and workload. They abstract the compute. Which also means - usage based pricing. We covered a lot, so no wonder it took us over an hour! Grab and lets jump in! - What makes S3 so amazing? - What would the S3 experience look like if we apply it to RDBMS? - Development cycle: Serverless requirements when coding, testing and finally in production. - Performance of Serverless databases, and what will make performance tuning a better experience - Elasticity and scalability. We agreed that "scale to zero" doesn't mean what everyone thinks it means. - Cost of Serverless. Is it actually worth it? - Architectures: Compute-storage separation, disaggregation, sharding and gateways. - Multi-regions concerns ... And of course: Do Serverless DBs make sense for SaaS developers?