text: **What is serverless development?**
  
  The following topics will guide you through developing a better conceptual understanding of 
  
  serverless application development, and how various AWS services ﬁt into together to create 
  
  *application patterns*that form the core of your cloud applications. These applications can range 
  
  from microservices that handle discreet business logic as a part of your application back-end, to 
  
  event-driven workﬂows that perform data transformations or processing. 