1 Introduction to serverless with Claudia
This chapter covers
- What serverless is
- The core concepts of serverless
- The difference between serverless and hosted web applications
- How Claudia fits
- Why use serverless
Serverless is a method of deploying and running applications on cloud infrastructure, on a pay-per-use basis and without renting or buying servers. Instead of you, the serverless platform provider is responsible for capacity planning, scaling, balancing, and monitoring; the provider is also able to treat your applications as functions.
Wait, no servers? Seems like a new buzzword, a hipster cloud trend promising to revolutionize your life for the better.
This book explains what serverless is, what problems it solves, and where it ...
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