Chapter 18 Serverless Computing
Serverless computing, or simply serverless, is a form of utility computing. With serverless, a cloud provider dynamically allocates resources to support running services. Service authors need never worry about resource management and are charged based on actual resource consumption—sometimes down to the second. Serverless goes hand in hand with reactive programming—a programming paradigm that focuses on processing asynchronous event streams. This chapter uses examples to explain how serverless works, digs into reactive programming, and ultimately explains how the two are related.
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