In the previous chapter, we looked at how serverless computing helps organizations to build applications without worrying about infrastructure. Serverless computing eliminates the operational overhead, brings agility into application development, and allows teams to spend more time on innovation.
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a concept in serverless computing that helps developers to deploy an individual piece of code in the form of a function for executing business logic. Serverless functions have the following benefits:
- Developers can focus purely on the code needed to solve the problem instead of worrying about infrastructure
- They bring consumption-based hosting plans, which allow users to pay only for the time spent running the code
- They integrate well with other cloud services, which ensures that they are responsive to other...