In this chapter, we covered the basics of serverless computing. We went over the evolution of serverless computing, its pros and cons, and the current state of the ecosystem. The last decade's innovation in hardware has given rise to an inventory of very high computational power at commodity hardware prices. Now, the software is catching up with the hardware advancements and churning out different paradigms to deploy modern software systems, like virtualization, cloud computing, PaaS, IaaS, BaaS, FaaS, and so on, presenting developers with a variety of options to design, architect, and deploy their systems.
Serverless computing started as pure FaaS, but it is rapidly converging with BaaS concepts, and the lines will continue to blur. The ...
