#4 - iRobot Case Study

Serverless Economics

In this episode hosts Ryan Jones and Joshua Proto look into iRobot's use of Serverless to help run their first internet-connected Roomba vacuum.
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Case Study Summary:

1. Customers are demanding easier ways to interact with a growing number of products and technologies throughout the home
   
2. iRobot, which had so far operated primarily as a hardware vendor, was about to bet its central line of business on its ability to run a high-availability, customer-facing cloud application and an Internet of Things (IoT) backend platform
   
3. iRobot began to build out its family of connected Roomba vacuums—and as the sheer number of connected customers and services quickly multiplied—iRobot recognized it needed a solution that could scale more quickly and allowed for more direct control.