The need for serverless offerings

So far, we've been spinning up and down compute instances such as virtual machines. Somehow, we were aware of and optimized the number of resources, machines, and all the infrastructure surrounding the applications we'd built. Still, you want your team to focus on what they do best – code development. Unless your organization wants to invest heavily in an expensive infrastructure team to do a lot of heavy lifting behind the scenes, you'd be better off concentrating on writing and building quality applications, rather than focusing on where and how to run them and how to optimize them.

Serverless offerings come as a reprieve for this problem. Instead of concentrating on how to host your infrastructure to run your applications, you can declare what you want to run, and the serverless offering manages it for you. This has come as a boon for small enterprises that do not have the budget to invest heavily in infrastructure and want...