Serverless architecture
The new trend emerging these days is serverless topology. It does not actually mean serverless or no server. Servers are abstracted from the users and users only focus on development aspects and leave everything else to the vendors. AWS Lambda is an example of a serverless architecture where you just package the microservice as a ZIP and upload it to AWS Lambda. Amazon takes care of other things, including spawning up enough instances to handle bulk service requests.
A Lambda function is a stateless function. It handles the request by invoking AWS services. We are simply billed on a number of hit requests and time taken to serve those requests. Similarly, Google has cloud functions. However, this pattern has the following ...
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