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What is Serverless Architecture?

cdemi

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. It just means that from Software Development perspective, servers are abstracted and outsourced to another entity, so you don't need to worry about it. Amazon: AWS Lambda. Google: Google Cloud Functions.

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O’Reilly serverless survey 2019: Concerns, what works, and what to expect

O'Reilly

We suspect this points to a general drift toward software teams taking more responsibility for infrastructure, and increasingly, enabled by serverless options. Given that Amazon’s AWS Lambda functions are only five years old this November, anyone with more than three years of experience is a very early adopter.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

The Symphonia

I was a little restricted in my thinking the first time around and I’ve come to see FaaS as something not quite stateless, since caching state in a Lambda instance that might stick around for 5 hours is a perfectly reasonable idea. I also rewrote the section on Startup Latency since Cold Starts are one of the big “FUD” areas of Serverless.