Summary

In this chapter, we covered the foundations of serverless in general and FaaS in particular. How the microservice architecture has modernized the software architecture and how the latest container and container orchestration technologies are spearheading the microservice adoption was a key lesson. We also covered EDA and the API Gateway architecture. These concepts should have helped cement your foundational knowledge of serverless computing and will be useful when we start covering FaaS platforms in Part 2 of this book. Serverless has evolved into a vast technology platform that encompasses many backends and computing services. The features and offerings may vary slightly between platforms and vendors, but the idea has caught up.

In the next chapter, we will look at some of the backend architectural patterns and technologies that will come in handy in serverless architectures.