Serverless
In this lesson, we'll study serverless.
We'll cover the following
Introduction
PaaS deploy applications. Serverless goes even further and enables the deployment of individual functions.
Thereby, Serverless allows even smaller deployments than with PaaS. A REST service can be divided into a variety of functions, one per HTTP method and resource.
The advantages of Serverless are similar to those of PaaS:
- A high degree of abstraction and thus relatively simple deployment.
- Serverless functions are only activated when a request is made so that no costs are incurred if no requests are processed.
- They can also scale very flexibly.
Serverless technologies include:
- AWS Lambda
- Google Cloud Functions
- Azure Functions
- Apache OpenWhisk. OpenWhisk allows you to install a Serverless environment in your own data center.
As with a PaaS, Serverless includes support for operation. Metrics and log management are provided by the cloud provider.
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