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Serverless computing overview

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Serverless computing overview

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- [Lecturer] In this lecture, we'll talk about the concept of serverless computing and its various forms and benefits. We'll also discuss its history, advantages, disadvantages, and other factors that you have to consider if you're planning to build a serverless architecture for your workloads. Let's start off by defining what this technology is all about. We have the first note answer to the question, what is serverless computing? Basically, serverless computing means an on-demand service with less server management. Take note of the two key phrases of this statement: on-demand service and less server management. The first one means that the compute capacity is provisioned and run once a request has been made and where you only pay for the actual computing time that you have consumed. It only runs on demand and stops running after the processing has been completed to save on costs. Therefore, it provides some massive cost benefit since you only pay for the actual service usage…

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