Serverless In A Nutshell

What is Serverless Architecture ?

It is a software design pattern that allows applications to be hosted on third-party service thus eliminating the need for traditional always-on server software and hardware management by developers. Your application still runs on servers, but all the server management is done by a third party. Applications are broken up into individual functions that run in stateless compute containers. Containers that are event-triggered, ephemeral (may last for one invocation), and fully managed by the cloud provider. Pricing is based on a number of execution rather than compute capacity. Autoscaling & fault-tolerant by default.

“Serverless computation is going to fundamentally not only change the economics of what is back-end computing, but it’s going to be the core of the future of distributed computing.” — Satya Nadella