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Thurupathan VijayakumarPractical API Architecture and Development with Azure and AWShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3555-3_6

6. Serverless APIs

Thurupathan Vijayakumar1 
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Colombo, Sri Lanka
 

Serverless is an ephemeral computational model; serverless endpoints are triggered based on a single event. These events spawn computation and execute the defined logic. Neither the caller nor the developer is aware of the computation infrastructure that emerges to serve the event. It is totally hidden and makes the presence of the computing infrastructure highly unnoticeable. The same goes for development and deployment, since there are no explicit server definitions and infrastructure code packages are given to the serverless ...

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