08/15/2016 09:16:47 AM
Serverless computing has been getting a lot of attention lately. There are frameworks, a conference, some notable blog posts, and a few books (including mine). I'm really glad to see this happening. I think serverless web apps can be incredibly powerful. As an industry we have a lot of room to grow, especially when it comes to scalability and reliability.
One thing I'm concerned about, however, is that some people seem to be conflating serverless architectures with microservice architectures, often based on AWS Lambda. While there is some overlap, these are not at all the same thing. When it comes to serverless web apps, the true innovation of serverless computing isn't microservices, it's auth.