Some people might think it was a joke when first exposed to the term serverless computing. It sounds a little strange, kind of like a pantless suit. How can you possibly have computing without a server? Skeptics may have assumed it was just another cloud computing marketing ploy. 

Serverless computing offers some substantial benefits related to the cost and planning required to move your information processing to the cloud. It provides a further level of abstraction that allows you to concentrate on developing applications without being concerned about the underlying infrastructure required to run them.