Serverless applications
The abstractions that emerge from the design of these distributed systems, largely built on microservices, suggest a natural next step. Why have servers in the traditional sense at all? Servers are big, powerful machines designed in the age of monoliths. If our thinking is in terms of small, resource sipping, independent actors indifferent to the world around them, shouldn't we be deploying microservices to "microservers"? This line of thought has led a revolutionary ideas: AWS Lamda.
AWS Lambda
The introduction of Amazon's AWS Lambda technology boostrapped the serverless movement we have today. Amazon describes Lambda like this:
"AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers...With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service - all with zero administration. Just upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability. You can set up your code to automatically...
