Serverless Architectures

Serverless architectures are becoming a popular trend in IT system building. As a consequence, it's quite common to hear people discussing cloud providers such as Amazon Web services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, among others. 

In this chapter, we will explore the meaning of serverless architecture and how this new way of building systems can help us to address business requirements in shorter amounts of time, thus reducing the effort required to build business solutions. We will also look at how this approach can be used to drastically reduce the time required to reach production by utilizing ready-to-use, third-party services and implementing custom functionalities, thereby creating stateless functions that can be deployed on the cloud.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• An introduction to serverless...