The Serverless Framework
The Serverless Framework was announced in 2015 with the name JavaScript Amazon Web Services (JAWS). It was initially developed in Node.js to make it easier for people to develop AWS Lambda functions. In the same year, it changed the name to Serverless Framework and expanded its scope to other cloud providers and serverless frameworks, including Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, Apache OpenWhisk, Fn, and many more.
Serverless Framework is open source, and its source code is available at GitHub: https://github.com/serverless/serverless. It is a very popular repository with more than 31,000 stars, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 3.20: Serverless Framework GitHub repository
The official website of the framework is available at https://serverless.com and provides extensive documentation, use cases, and examples. The main features of the Serverless Framework can be grouped into four main topics:
- Cloud-agnostic...