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What is serverless computing?

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What is serverless computing?

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- [Instructor] When I first heard about serverless computing around 2014, I was confused how cloud computing can work without computer servers. I then realized that cloud providers did not use the term serverless in a literal sense. There's still computer servers under the hood, but in theory, serverless means less work is needed to manage the servers that run code. How does serverless computing work in practice? Serverless tends to be associated with specific cloud products. For example, AWS Lambda from Amazon is considered to be serverless computing. Developers can use AWS Lambda to implement microservices or small software components within a larger system that can be independently built, tested, and deployed. I've used AWS Lambda, along with tools from serverless.com, to set up backend API functions. Google Cloud Platform has serverless functionality through Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Build. The same code…

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