The Fault in Our Stars
Serverless applications are gaining a lot of popularity, as some independent reports indicate. This is a consequence of a larger trend, where companies let specialists like cloud service providers or SaaS offerings take care of the low level infrastructure, scalability and to a certain extent the security of increasing parts of their applications.
Developer time is almost certainly the scarcest and most valuable resource at any organization that is developing applications. We believe that allowing developers to focus on the parts of that application that actually deliver business value is by far the biggest advantage offered by serverless architectures.
Developers can now abstract away many low-level aspects of their application's infrastructure. But they still need to understand the serverless components they are using, including how to properly configure them to meet availability, scalability, cost, security and compliance requirements.
If you are writing serverless applications in AWS, there are a variety of frameworks and toolkits you can use. Some of those options are writing CloudFormation by hand (a.k.a "roughing it"), the CDK, SAM, Chalice or the widely popular Serverless Framework.
