Serverless Architecture

This lesson goes over how Serverless Architecture works. We will demonstrate it using the example from the previous chapter.

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In the previous lesson, you got introduced to the definition of Serverless architecture; now, let’s see how it works!

Working of Serverless Architecture

Serverless architecture pushes towards further shredding of the back-end architecture. In a similar way that microservices broke down big monolith services into smaller ones, with a specific purpose, serverless architecture aims to break down microservices in even smaller units.

For example, let’s take a look at the solution that we used the previous chapter.

We used the database blog with a collection user. This collection contained a document for each user. In the solution, the back-end acted as a service which provided CRUD operations for the front-end part of the application.

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