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Hands-On Serverless Computing
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Hands-On Serverless Computing

by Kuldeep Chowhan
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
8h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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What is FaaS?

I've mentioned FaaS a few times already, so let's dig into what it really means. Serverless computing involves code that runs as a service on an infrastructure that is fully managed by the cloud provider. This is automatically provisioned, based on an event, and is automatically scaled to ensure high availability. You can think of this as FaaS that run on stateless, ephemeral containers created and maintained by the cloud provider. You might have already come across terms such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Let's look at what they mean. SaaS is a form of cloud computing in which software is licensed based on a subscription, hosted centrally, and is delivered ...

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