From the course: Serverless Cloud Computing: Concepts, Platforms, and Services
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Emerging serverless platforms
From the course: Serverless Cloud Computing: Concepts, Platforms, and Services
Emerging serverless platforms
- [Instructor] Emerging serverless platforms are expanding beyond the traditional offerings from major cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions to address evolving developer needs and specialized use cases. Edge-focused serverless platforms, like CloudFlare workers and Fastly Compute@Edge, are gaining prominence, offering function execution closer to end users with extremely low latency. These platforms enable developers to run code across global networks of edge locations, improving application performance and reducing costs. Container-based serverless platforms, such as Knative and OpenFaaS or OpenFaaS are growing in popularity, providing more flexibility and portability across different environments. These open-source platforms allow organizations to run serverless workloads on their own infrastructure or any cloud provider. Specialized serverless platforms are emerging for specific use cases, such as database-specific platforms like…
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