5 Serverless made easy
This chapter covers
- Deploying a serverless web application in Azure
- Understanding design patterns for Terraform modules
- Downloading arbitrary code with Terraform
- Combining Terraform with Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
Serverless is one of the biggest marketing gimmicks of all time. It seems like everything is marketed as “serverless” despite nobody even being able to agree on what the word means. Serverless definitely does not refer to the elimination of servers; it usually means the opposite since distributed systems often involve many more servers than traditional system design.
One thing that can be agreed on is that serverless is not a single technology; it’s a suite of related technologies sharing two key characteristics: ...
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