1 A tale of two technologies

This chapter covers

  • Cloud landscape
  • What is Serverless?
  • What is artificial intelligence?
  • The democratizing power of Moore’s Law
  • A canonical AI as a Service architecture
  • Canonical architecture on Amazon Web Services

Welcome to our book! In these pages we are going to explore two exploding technologies: serverless computing and artificial intelligence. We will do this from an engineering perspective. When we say an engineering perspective, we mean that this book will provide you with a practical hands-on guide to get you up and running with AI as a Service, without getting bogged down in a lot of theory.

We imagine that like most people, you have heard of these topics and will be wondering why we’ve combined both ...

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