In the microservices world, terms like serverless and function are the newest kids on the block.
\nBut, they are only evolutionary steps towards the next step:
\nAnd as happened to me last week just by accident, when I wanted to describe function and serverless, I accidentally talked about “functionless”. So, we now need to create the term “functionless” as the next evolutionary step after function and serverless.<\/p>\n
Just as Burr Sutter said in his today’s keynote are Red Hat’s Tech Exchange conference: Serverless is a misnomer, because what serverless means, is, they’re there but you can ignore them.<\/p>\n
So functionless is, when some other logic takes care of creating services from functions, and you don’t need to worry about the how.<\/p>\n
So, basically, serverless is the Ansible of Microservices:
\nDescribe the end-state, and some cool tool builds it for you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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