Architecture Decision on using Microservices or Serverless Functions with Containers

Cloud adoption is gaining lots of momentum across the globe and enterprise are focussing not only migration on to cloud but also on developing cloud native application. There are lots of focuses on reducing and optimizing resources and hence developing application in a serverless fashion is going to be the key in the industry. Many organizations are working on application modernization and developing distributed application and hence microservice is the key focus area in converting their monolithic into microservices and use containers for easy portability across the platform and makes it more platform neutral. There are high elements of focus on whether to go for serverless or Microservice mode and should we use containers for deployment is the key debate among the people who are working in this area and are still not clear which way to go forward in the given situation. In this article we would like to explore and discuss about each technology in details and analyse the advantage and challenge of these emerging areas and suggest the ideal way to move forward in cloud.