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Building Serverless Applications with Python
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Building Serverless Applications with Python

by Jalem Raj Rohit
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
272 pages
4h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Serverless architectures don't have to be real-time only

Serverless architectures generally are leveraged as real-time systems as they work as a function as service which is triggered by a set of available triggers. However, this is a very common misconception, as serverless systems can be leveraged equally well both as real-time and batch architectures. Knowing how to leverage the concept of serverless systems as batch architectures will open up many engineering possibilities, as all engineering teams don't necessarily need or have real-time systems to operate.

Serverless systems can be batched by leveraging the following:

  • The cron facility in triggers
  • The concept of queues

Firstly, let's understand the concept of the cron facility in ...

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