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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Go
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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Go

by Mina Andrawos
March 2019
Beginner to intermediate
324 pages
7h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Serverless applications

Serverless applications are another relatively new technology in the world of cloud-native applications. They are mostly used for tasks that don't need to run continuously. To properly understand the concept of serverless applications, let's go through an example.

Consider Amazon's AWS Lambda service (https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/), which is utilized by numerous applications worldwide. In order to perform a specific task, the service allows users to request a function to run remotely. So, in other words, you ask AWS Lambda to run some code for you. After the code is executed, the output is returned to you. No stateful data is maintained. The code or function that runs on Lambda is provided by you. 

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