Can we deploy QlikSense on serverless architecture?

Question

Can we deploy QlikSense/QlikView on serverless architecture? Currently using Monolithic architecture, any other way to move on to serverless?

Answer 1

While I am not familiar with Qlik's products, it is unlikely they would be suitable for serverless architecture.

Companies generally offer the products either as:

• Downloadable products that you run on your own server (which could be a virtual server in the cloud), or
• Software-as-a-Service, where you access their website directly and no server is required (eg Salesforce)

"Serverless architecture" is a design decision that can be made when designing a software product. It means the the application is broken-down into small components ('microservices') that can be run on services like AWS Lambda, with no actual server.

However, such architecture would normally only be used for your own applications that you create. If another company has designed their system to be 'serverless', then they would normally run it on a cloud system (eg AWS) and offer it to users as Software-as-a-Service. It would be highly unusual to have a 'download' product that runs on a serverless architecture.

I notice that Qlik has product offerings that run on AWS (AWS Marketplace: Qlik), which runs on an Amazon EC2 instance, rather than serverless.