August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
12h 5m
English
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What is serverless?
Being an emerging trend in the technology world, serverless computing is rapidly gaining popularity. The most wide-spread definition of serverless at this point is driven by the arrival of technologies such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, IBM OpenWhisk, and Google Cloud Functions:
Serverless computing is a code execution model where server-side logic is run in stateless, event-triggered, ephemeral compute containers that are fully managed by a third-party.
This definition of serverless is synonymous with Functions as a Service (FaaS). We will use these terms interchangeably in this book.
In different programming languages, we may encounter the terms “function”, “procedure”, and “method” referring to different types of ...