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Four Ws of Serverless Computing - who, what, when, and why

Serverless computing offers many advantages over traditional cloud-based or server-centric infrastructure.

Who uses Serverless Computing?

Developers

For many developers, serverless architectures offer greater scalability, more flexibility, and quicker time to release, all at a reduced cost.

How’s that?

Although serverless computing does take place on servers, developers never have to deal with the servers, and the vendor manages them. Thanks to that, companies can reduce the investment, which lowers expenses, and it also frees up developers to create and expand their applications without being constrained by server capacity.

Companies

Companies using serverless applications can speed up the development of new services. Serverless allows companies to run their applications in any cloud, hybrid, or multi, and stay in control with the help of cloud management. Companies can quickly make changes, meet customer needs, and benefit from the latest trends in innovative solutions. Nowadays, many massive companies have changed their strategy to serverless. The two most outstanding examples of companies that improve their success using serverless computing are Coca-Cola and Netflix.

What is Serverless Computing?

Serverless doesn’t mean there is no server. Let there be no confusion.

Instead, serverless computing is an event-driven application design and deployment paradigm where all the computing resources are provided as scalable cloud services.

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Serverless computing is a model of cloud computing execution wherein the cloud providers dynamically manage the resource allocation of the servers. In simple terms, serverless computing is a process of backend services provided on an as-used basis.

The two most significant benefits of serverless computing:

  • developers can focus on the business goals of the code they write rather than on infrastructural questions
  • organizations only pay for the computing resources they Manage complex requests indeed used in a very granular fashion, rather than buying physical hardware or renting cloud instances month by month

Why should you choose Serverless Computing?

The server-centric and cloud-based infrastructure is the traditional way of computing, while serverless offers several benefits.

Its main advantages are:

  • It scales with demand automatically
  • It eliminates server maintenance
  • It’s event-driven, meaning the code is invoked only when triggered by a request
  • It significantly reduces server costs because you don’t pay for idle
  • Less administration (if the cloud provider owns the platform, they are the one dealing with administration). (https://thebcms.com/blog/four-ws-serverless-computing-who-what-when-why)

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