Chapter 8: Running a Serverless Application on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Serverless computing is the next frontier for modern app development! The serverless framework abstracts the computing resources from the developers so that they don't have to deal with compute or other components to run their code.

But wait – let me tell you a secret: there are still servers involved. Lots of servers and networking gear and storage, too. We just don't want to have to think about them anymore.

In the last two decades, we have shifted our focus from Waterfall model development for a big fat monolithic application and deploying it to a physical server in our on-premises IT, to a DevOps model of delivery for our microservices-based application, running in small containers on the public cloud. This is a big change, not only in terms of technology but also in terms of a quick go to market strategy and continuous delivery for new features.

But agility is still...