In the early days of Unix, sorry Windows, a tool called Pine was utilized for emails and reading Usenet groups. Pine was created by the University of Washington in March 1992. Pico (Pine composer), a text editor, is a tool that allowed users to compose messages in Pine. This suite of tools was quintessential during the 90’s as it provided users within an easy to use interface.

Serverless architectures allow for building and managing static client based applications and single page applications that leverage connecting APIs and their widgets to perform all the heavy lifting of managing infrastructure that was once needed to provide client/server architectures. Gone are the days that developers have to provision, scale, and maintain servers. Now you can think of an idea, write your code, test your code and push that code to your remote repository. The rest is history. Sounds a bit unicornish, huh? This article will provide a brief summary of the different components that can be leverage within the overarching concept of serverless computing.