What is Serverless?
Serverless refers to applications where the management and allocation of servers and resources are completely managed by the cloud provider. And the billing is based on the actual consumption of those resources.
Traditionally, we’ve built and deployed web applications where we have some degree of control over the HTTP requests that are made to our server. Our application runs on that server and we are responsible for provisioning and managing the resources for it. There are a few issues with this. We are charged for keeping the server up even when we are not serving out any requests. We are responsible for uptime and maintenance of the server and all its resources. We are also responsible for applying the appropriate security updates to the server. As our usage scales we need to manage scaling up our
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