The growth of rich mobile and edge applications is requiring developers to build applications in new ways. Client-serverless is the way of the future.

Today’s users expect the entire internet at their fingertips no matter where they are or what device they’re using. But this capability has been difficult for application developers to deliver until only recently.

During the past several years, smartphones, browsers, and embedded devices have advanced so much that they function as globally distributed, mobile rich clients. They can deliver remote user experiences comparable to what users would experience if they were using a local or high-speed dedicated connection.

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This milestone is partly due to the rise of serverless architecture, microservices, and cloud-native services and the way they enable developers to build scalable and dependable web applications anywhere on the planet. Read on to learn more about the origins of client-server architecture and where it’s going in 2021.

A new rich-client paradigm for app dev

As this trend intensifies, a new paradigm of connected internet applications has come to the forefront. This approach is known as client-serverless computing. It delivers consistently dynamic, interactive application experiences from any smartphone or edge device, no matter where a user happens to be, or where the resources they’re accessing are being served from.

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