Cloud Native Architectures

Serverless

Serverless does not mean the absence of servers; however, it does mean that resources can be used without having to consider server capacity. Serverless applications do not require the design or operations team to provision, scale, or maintain servers. All of that is handled by the cloud provider. This approach is probably the first time ever where the developers can focus on exactly what they are best at: writing code. In addition to the flexibility and focus this allows, the cost implications to serverless applications is a huge advantage over more traditional approaches, even containers. Serverless pricing is typically done by the runtime of the service, priced at the 100 millisecond duration. Designing services that execute ...