The server is dead, long live the server: The Rise of Serverless Computing.

The article discusses the advantages of the concept of what the article terms serverless computing, particularly relating to the release of cloud computing applications. According to the article, high technology firms such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have unleashed various serverless capabiliti...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 62; no. 12; pp. 44 - 55
Main Authors:	CASTRO, PAUL, ISHAKIAN, VATCHE, MUTHUSAMY, VINOD, SLOMINSKI, ALEKSANDER
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Dec2019
Subjects:	Cloud computing Virtual machine systems Client/server computing
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article discusses the advantages of the concept of what the article terms serverless computing, particularly relating to the release of cloud computing applications. According to the article, high technology firms such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have unleashed various serverless capabilities. The article examines the cost of serverless computing, the architecture of serverless computing, and programming models. It mentions Mobile Backend as-a-Service (MBaaS).