The document discusses the relationship between serverless and microservices architectures. It provides links to resources for learning about microservices, serverless functions, Istio, and OpenWhisk. Short snippets of code demonstrate how to write actions for OpenWhisk in JavaScript, Python, and Java. The document advocates leveraging third-party services (BaaS) and custom code run in containers (FaaS) to build serverless applications, while microservices can also be integrated through long-running containers and functions.