Alex Marr ‘2o Trek 10 – During my internship this summer at Trek10, I have been given the opportunity to learn about cloud computing and the nuances within the field. Among the different areas, I have learned the most about serverless cloud computing, which is the field in which Trek10 specializes. Trek 10 has given me several small projects, as well as one large one that has taken most of my time here to complete.

Among the smaller projects, I have created a “Blockchain Competency Application” that follows the design of other Amazon Web Services Competency Applications. Another project included searching through publications created by various universities for keywords relating to the field of cloud computing. If these keywords were in the document, the document would be put into a spreadsheet marking what aspect of cloud computing was an interest for the university and the author of the document would be contacted by Trek10’s CEO.

For my large project, the goal was to create a publication which would be the first meta-review ever created regarding the serverless research community. In preparation to write this meta-review, I had to create a database to store all the information of documents about serverless that I found in Google Scholar. This would include their title, year, authors, journal, keywords, university, and country. After creating this database, I analyzed this information in order to produce graphics that would be the main attention for my meta-review. I then created figures regarding the production from each country, the top institution, the top author, results in Google Scholar by search term, and a projection of the velocity of publications for the next few years. After creating the graphics, the actual writing of the paper came smoothly since all the work had already been completed and I was able to talk to others at Trek10 about my organization and structure of the paper.

The most fun part about this internship was the most challenging part, which was creating a projection of the velocity of publications for the serverless research community. Prior to this internship, I did not have much experience with projections, but it was fun teaching myself and playing around with the data until I found out how to make an accurate projection.

I would like to thank Wabash College and Career Services for the opportunity to learn about new concepts and to allow me to actively engage myself in a work environment.