JAKE CYR

Serverless is the hot new thing over the past couple of years, but is it worth the hype? How was the performance, cost and scalability of serverless measure up against the traditional server-driven architecture? In this article, we'll look at the pros and cons of migrating to a serverless application architecture or building your new app in this fashion. We'll be discussing the most popular used serverless hosting platform services, which is in this case Amazon Web Services (AWS). What is serverless? Serverless means using machine resources on demand as opposed to having a constantly running application server which is taking up resources and costing you money. Serverless doesn't actually…