Serverless Mental Models: What They Don't Tell You Before You Build

Most serverless tutorials teach you how to deploy a Lambda function.

This article teaches you how to think about serverless, so you can make good architecture decisions instead of just following steps and hoping for the best.

I put together a four-part YouTube mini-series called Serverless Mental Models. This article covers the same ground, with each section anchored to the video if you want to go deeper, see the code, or watch the concepts play out live.

The Four Serverless Mental Models Videos

Serverless has real limits, and you should know them before you commit.