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A Monolith Architecture Can Be Transformed into Serverless

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The title of the article is "How a Monolith Architecture" but a good portion of the article describes considerations to take when moving services that seem not to be apart of the a monolith to a server-less cloud provider.

It seems that much of the advice centers around chopping up the monolith into services that can be run on a server-less cloud platform.

Uni-kernels, their promise of boot on demand and extremely small footprint, may help with a lot of this. In the very, very, near future devs will be able to package monoliths in ultra light-weight OS's that boot on demand and are optimized for the running application - and do all this on server-less cloud platforms without having to worry all that much.

I'd wager that in 2-3 years many of the use cases of containers will be replaced by Unikernel tech and the desire to run on serverless cloud platforms will be one very big use case.

Aren't unikernels specifically designed to run on server-like cloud platforms, not "serverless" ones? That's what the "kernel" bit is about, after all.

Here's a good article on the topic from a few years ago: https://thenewstack.io/continuum-containers-unikernels-serve.... The most concrete definition of serverless I can find relates to platforms that do not provision machines that you pay for but instead serverless environments abstract away the machine and you only pay for the resources your applications uses. That definition does not exclude uni-kernels in the least. The reason why Unikernels are good for this is because they are a way to ensure that your application is housed in a way that guarantees it will run without much thought given to the concerns the article states - and with an absolute minimum of overhead. I wouldn't be surprised if serverless is or will be implemented with unikernels. https://medium.com/solo-io/unik-is-here-to-help-bring-aws-fi...

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