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One of the more recent architecture choices we can play with is the idea of serverless aka FaaS (Function as a Service). Thankfully, it is not hyped like say Machine Learning is. But nevertheless, it is widely misunderstood – often leading to bad design choices. I am just going to list a few questions I have been asked often (or I have asked fellow techies) , and give my point of view on those. I will try to keep this at a level where it makes sense for people who are not full time technologists .

Are there really no servers?

To begin with the name serverless itself is quite misleading. Your code does not execute in vapor – it still needs servers. From a developer point of view – you choose a provider to handle a lot of things servers do (but not everything) , and you can focus…