Mastering PHP 7

Summary

Throughout this chapter, we took a hands-on approach with two popular serverless platforms--AWS and Iron.io. Using the serverless framework, we were able to quickly deploy our code to the AWS Lambda service. The actual deployment involved a few AWS services, exposing our little chunk of code as a REST API endpoint hitting AWS Lambda in the background. With all of the services being managed by AWS, we were left with a true serverless experience. Quite a powerful concept, if we think about it. Aside from AWS, Iron.io is another interesting serverless platform. Unlike real-time code execution on AWS Lamda, the code on Iron.io executes as scheduled/queued tasks (not to say that AWS does not have its own queued solution as well). While ...