Terence Bennett - July 29, 2020
During the last few years, a new paradigm of computing started to get the attention of developers – serverless computing. In serverless computing, developers squarely focus on the code and not on the underlying infrastructure. Developers write code snippets in their favorite language and directly upload them to a serverless computing platform for execution. Multiple code snippets or functions are logically connected to form a complex application. Since the platform deals with one function at a time, and functions are the fundamental deployment units, this model is often called as Functions as a Service (FaaS).
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When targeting FaaS, developers don’t think of a whole application. They only write, test, and deploy one function at a time. These are then assembled together to deliver a unique feature or functionality of an application. So, a function is to FaaS what a VM is to IaaS.There are three critical attributes to a serverless platform… (read more).
Terence Bennett, CEO of DreamFactory, has a wealth of experience in government IT systems and Google Cloud. His impressive background includes being a former U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer and a former member of Google’s Red Team. Prior to becoming CEO, he served as COO at DreamFactory Software.