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Serverless cloud solutions

Serverless cloud solutions

- Okay, this lesson's all about serverless computing. And we're going to look at three key areas that you would use primarily the cloud service provider to do these serverless things. The first is functions, The second are containers that are serverless, and the third is the newest one, and that is serverless databases. Let's start with functions or functions as a service 'cause this is also referred to as FAAS. Remember, a function is just a little bit of code, maybe JSON, a little JSON chunk. Maybe we write these onsite or we can go up and use a graphical interface, a GUI up at a service provider, and we can write the function there, often with help and prompts. We could even use generative AI to help us write functions. Or cloud providers have literally hundreds and hundreds of pre-cooked functions that we can use for a wide variety of use cases and workflows. We can even use a graphical tool, let's say, for example, an AWS called Step Functions, which actually gives us like a…

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