November 18, 2019

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An introduction to serverless

An introduction to serverless

The latest buzzword is "serverless"the idea of replacing your server applications with. . .well, what, exactly? Mike Roberts introduces the concepts behind serverless architectures to answer this question.
Talk Title An introduction to serverless
Speakers Mike Roberts (Symphonia)
Conference O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference
Conf Tag Engineering the Future of Software
Location New York, New York
Date April 3-5, 2017
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
Video Talk Video

Web services, the cloud, containers, microservices—software architecture always has a new fad, and some of them even stick around for a while. The latest buzzword is “serverless”—the idea of replacing your server applications with. . .well, what, exactly? Mike Roberts introduces the concepts behind serverless architectures to answer this question, explains how serverless compares with other cloud approaches, and provides reasons why it is worthy of some of the hype it’s currently receiving, balanced with a few warnings of some rough edges.

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