August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
12h 5m
English
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Distributed system complexity
Similar to the Microservices architecture, serverless introduces increased system complexity and a requirement for network communication between application layers. The added complexity centers around the following two main aspects:
- Implicit interfaces between services: As discussed earlier, functions make the application changes easier by allowing for separate versioning of services. This, however, introduces an implicit contract between different parts of the system, that could be broken by one of the sides. In a monolith application, breaking changes can be easily caught by the compiler or integration testing. In a FaaS environment, a developer could make a breaking change without impact awareness.
- Network ...