An introduction to serverless architecture
Serverless architecture was born through the initiative of Amazon. The company was looking to promote an environment wherein a development team could be autonomous, small, and self-managed, allowing it to work on the whole software development cycle, from writing the code to shipping and delivering to production environments.
Serverless architecture is sometimes misunderstood as the concept of software systems that are deployed without the need for a physical server. To understand this idea, you can review the definition of serverless in Martin Fowler's blog:
"It's important to understand that a serverless architecture is the approach in which developers code business logic as functions, forgetting about the server's provisioning and scaling concerns where the logic will be executed."
- https://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html
Common examples of serverless and FaaS include:
- Authentication
- SMS notifications
- Email services
On the other hand, within...
