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The role of serverless computing in cloud-native architectures

The role of serverless computing in cloud-native architectures

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The role of serverless computing in cloud-native architectures

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- [Instructor] How does serverless computing play into cloud native architectures? First, some basics. It should be clearly stated that one of the most overused words in cloud computing today is serverless. So let's clarify what we are talking about. Serverless refers to any cloud service that doesn't expose the underlying server architecture to the consumer of the cloud service. The intent of serverless is to allow you to use cloud capabilities without having to size or scale a server fleet to operate the capability. The most classic example of the comparison between server base and serverless cloud resources is in the area of databases. Amazon RDS provides a MySQL and Postgres database as a service. To use this product, you have to specify what size of database you want to use. This basically means you have to select how many servers and what size and capacity those servers should be and the price of your hosted…

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