Foreword

At some point in the next few years we’re going to see the first billion-dollar startup with a single employee, the founder, and that engineer will be using serverless technology. Serverless takes the permissionless world of IT today to its logical conclusion—developers no longer need to wait for anyone to sign off on a new project. Developers can get started in minutes building apps without worrying about servers, infrastructure, data stores, or configuration tools. From a business perspective, serverless is revolutionary because the developer doesn’t need to pay until the point of use. Unless a customer is using a service, the developer doesn’t need to pay for it. This is the on-demand economy in action.

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