Hands-On Serverless Computing

Limited number of testing tools

One of the limitations to the growth of serverless architectures is the limited number of testing and deployment tools. This is anticipated to change as the serverless field grows, and there are already some up-and-coming tools that have helped with deployment. I anticipate that cloud providers will start offering ways to test serverless applications locally as services. Azure has already made some moves in this direction, and AWS has been expanding on this as well. NPM has released a couple of testing tools so you can test locally without deploying to your provider. Some of these tools include node-lambda and aws-lambda- local. One of my current favorite deployment tools is the serverless Framework deployment ...