Serverless toolkits

As discussed earlier in this chapter, the biggest chink in the armor of the serverless promise is the absence of standardization in implementing and tooling. This is not a drawback so much as a work in progress.

The traction that serverless architecture is gaining is spawning a lot of innovation, and startups are coming up with interesting offerings to fill the gaps that the current ecosystem has. The gaps that the tooling platforms have to fill are the deployment, configuration, and monitoring concerns.

Serverless is the biggest player, actively blazing a trail while creating a toolkit that eases up the aforementioned tasks of serverless computing. It enables you to focus on your code, and not on the operations of your FaaS environments.

The other toolkits in this ecosystem are Clay, NodeLambda, Back&, Synk, and so on, each aimed at solving niche and overlapping problems in the serverless ecosystem.

There is so much traction in this space that we will continue to see newer and more powerful tools at a breakneck speed. Cautious evaluation and due diligence are a must while selecting the right platform and toolkit to adopt the serverless paradigm.