The relationship between serverless and FaaS

The following diagram illustrates the position of event-driven programming, FaaS, and serverless FaaS, where serverless FaaS is the intersection area between FaaS and serverless:

Figure 1.2: A Venn diagram illustrating the relationship between serverless and FaaS

Serverless is a paradigm shift that enables developers to not worry about server provisioning and operations. Billing would be pay-per-request. Also, many useful services are there on the public cloud for us to choose, connecting them together and use them to solve the business problems to get the job done.

Applications in the serverless ...

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