Serverless Advantages
Serverless abstracts infrastructure management so developers can focus on business logic, faster deployment, and scaling automatically based on demand.
Pros
- No server management — the platform handles everything
- Automatic scaling and high availability
- Cost-efficient — pay only for execution time
- Faster time to market with less operational overhead
Cons / Trade-offs
- Cold-start latency can affect response times
- Vendor lock-in risk with cloud providers
- Limited runtime duration and memory constraints
- Debugging and monitoring is harder than traditional infrastructure
Real-World Examples
- Event-driven backend APIs
- Real-time file processing and image resizing
- Scheduled tasks and cron jobs on the cloud
- Chatbots, notifications, and serverless workflows
Best Practices
- Design functions to be stateless and idempotent
- Use environment variables for configuration
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Choose serverless only for workloads that benefit from event-driven or burst scaling
“Serverless allows you to write code, not manage servers, empowering small teams to deliver faster and scale automatically.”
— Viswa
— Viswa