This article is a part of a series that looks at serverless from diverse points of view and provides pragmatic guides that help in adopting serverless architecture, tackling practical challenges in serverless, and discussing how serverless enables reactive event-driven architectures. The articles stay clear of a Cloud provider serverless services, only referring to those in examples (AWS being a common reference). The articles in this series are published periodically and can be searched with the tag “openupserverless.”

Brief Background

To recap on the broad-based meaning of serverless, serverless is any offering that abstracts out the infrastructure choices and provisioning from DevOps and works on a usage-based cost model. The usage is defined in the context of the service by the platform vendors.