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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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Understanding serverless architectures

The concept of serverless architectures or serverless engineering revolves entirely around understanding the concept of functions as a service. The most technical and accurate definition of serverless computing on the internet is as follows:

"Serverless computing, also known as function as a service (FAAS), is a cloud computing and code execution model in which the cloud provider fully manages starting and stopping of a function's container platform as a service (PaaS)."

Now, let's go into the details of each part of that definition to understand the paradigm of serverless computing better. We shall start with the term function as a service. It means that every serverless model has a function that is ...

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