Serverless is one of the hottest buzzwords in technology these days and everyone wants to ride this bandwagon. Serverless brings a lot of advantages in overall computing, software development processes, infrastructure, and technical implementation. There is a lot going on in the industry--at one end of the spectrum is infrastructure as a service and serverless at the other end. There is PaaS and containers in between. I have met many developers and it seems to me that there exists some level of confusion among them about IaaS, PaaS, containers, and serverless computing. Also, there is much confusion about use cases, applicability, architecture, and implementation for the serverless paradigm. Serverless is a new paradigm that is changing not only technology but also culture and processes within organizations.
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