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Serverless Architecture

BaaS and FaaS

Courtesy: Martinfowler.com, and Youtube

1. Serverless refers to applications that significantly or fully depend on 3rd party applications / services (‘in the cloud’) to manage server-side logic and state. These are typically ‘rich client’ applications (think single page web apps, or mobile apps) that use the vast ecosystem of cloud accessible databases (like Parse, Firebase), authentication services (Auth0, AWS Cognito), etc. These types of services have been previously described as ‘(Mobile) Backend as a Service’.
2. Serverless can also mean applications where some amount of server-side logic is still written by the application developer but unlike traditional architectures is run in stateless compute containers that are event-triggered, ephemeral (may only last for one invocation), and fully managed by a 3rd party. One way to think of this is ‘Functions as a service / FaaS’ . AWS Lambda is one of the most popular implementations of FaaS at present, but there are others. I’ll be using ‘FaaS’ as a shorthand for this meaning of Serverless throughout the rest of this article.

Simple Complicated Complex and Chaotic

http://noop.nl/2008/08/simple-vs-complicated-vs-complex-vs-chaotic.html

Incremental and Iterative Development

https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/agile-needs-to-be-both-iterative-and-incremental#comments