Software Architecture with Spring 5.0

Benefits and pitfalls

Adopting a serverless architecture approach to creating applications provides us with many benefits, but there are also some pitfalls that we should address. Let's start by reviewing the benefits:

• Developers using a serverless architecture can focus primarily on the code, and can forget everything related to provisioning servers, which is a task handled by the cloud provider itself.
• The scaling of the code is ephemeral, meaning that it can be scaled and can spin up or down, based on the number of requests retrieved.
• By definition, all of the functions used to code the business logic must be stateless, and therefore, loosely coupled. In this way, the tasks are focused on well-defined responsibilities.
• Functions can be ...