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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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Scaling costs

With FaaS offerings, horizontal scaling is something that is automatically managed by the cloud provider. They also take care of scaling up and scaling down the infrastructure that is required to process your functions. What this means is that you don't have to spend any time in developing the solutions yourself, everything is automatically taken care of for you. The cloud provider also takes care of ensuring that your functions are run in an environment that is highly available and that it runs across multiple availability zones (AZs) within a region. The other big benefit that you get is that the cloud provider takes care of patching the infrastructure automatically for you and you don't have to worry about it when there are ...

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